A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up by Mark Ryan |
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (December 01 2002)
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Read an ExcerptEveryday Math for Everyday Life
Like it or not, math is here to stay. We live in a world of percentages, statistics, interest rates, and taxes. The Dow goes up 3 percent, the NASDAQ drops 5 percent. The inflation rate is such-and-such a percent, the trade deficit is so many billions Everyday Math for Everyday Life, Part 2
Calculators are great. I have several, I use them often, and couldn't get along without them. Everyone should know how to use them. They're fast, they never make mistakes - assuming, of course, that you punch the right buttons - and there are many math
Book Description Math Can Be Easy!
Tackle common math problems:
- Determine the gas mileage of your car
- Calculate your daily caloric intake from FDA food labels
- Convert a recipe from eight servings to ten
- Compute the true interest rate of your credit card
- Demystify the prime rate and consumer price index.
Do mental math on the spot:
- Convert foreign currencies
- Calculate discounts, markups, and sales tax
- Multiply and divide with numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions
- Convert from centigrade to Fahrenheit
- Round off the right restaurant tip.
Master probability, odds, and statistics:
- What are the odds that your next two children will both be boys?
- Which games should you play when you go to a casino?
- What is the significance of polls and their margin of error and the bell curve and standard deviation?
- Do men or women have more sex partners? The answer may surprise you!
Everyday math for everyday life
- Tipping
- Balancing your checkbook
- Credit card interest
- Investments
- Recipe conversions
- Taxes and inflation
- Buying carpeting
- Baseball stats
- Gambling odds
A painless and easy guide to making sense (and cents) out of numbers! Let's face it, math is everywhere. In this practical guide, Mark Ryan takes the confusion, frustration, and-yes-fear out of math. You'll enjoy his jargon-free approach and you'll learn how you, too, can master math. Discover:
- How simple math equals big money when it comes to credit cards, investments, and insurance
- Basic geometry for life's essentials: mulch for the garden, fencing for the yard, carpeting for the living room, water for your pool
- How to take the guesswork out of cooking: from adjusting servings to converting measurements
- How to help your kids with math
- How to compute compound interest and mortgage payments
- Sports math: calculate a pitcher's earned run average or the win/loss ratio of your child's soccer team
- How to use the functions on a calculator or do simple math in your head ... and much more!
Now, even the most die-hard math-haters, mathaphobes, and the numerically impaired can do the math! About the Author Mark Ryan A graduate of Brown University and the University of Wisconsin Law School and a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Mark Ryan has been teaching math for over 12 years. He runs the Math Center in Winnetka, Illinois (www.themathcenter.com) where he teaches high school math courses including a course and a related workshop for parents based on a program he developed, The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Math Students. » More by Mark Ryan
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