All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide - Hardcover

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Steve Slavin

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Synopsis

An easy-to-read guide to sharpening math skills for those who have taken mathematics and elementary algebra in high school or college and find they need to brush up on these skills for use in their professional or personal life. Examples and problems are related to real-life situations.

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From the Back Cover

Completely updated—but just as fun and easy!
The classic refresher course in math survival returns.

ALL the MATH YOU'LL EVER NEED
A Self-Teaching Guide
Revised Edition

A sharp mind, like a healthy body, is subject to the same rule of nature: Use it or lose it. Need a calculator just to work out a 15 percent service charge? Not exactly sure how to get the calculator to give you the figure you need? Turn to this revised and updated edition of All the Math You'll Ever Need, the friendliest, funniest, and easiest workout program around.

In no time, you'll have total command of all the powerful mathematical tools needed to make numbers work for you. In a dollars-and-cents, bottom-line world, where numbers influence everything, none of us can afford to let our math skills atrophy. This step-by-step personal math trainer:

  • Refreshes practical math skills for your personal and professional needs, with examples based on everyday situations
  • Offers straightforward techniques for working with decimals and fractions
  • Demonstrates simple ways to figure discounts, calculate mortgage interest rates, and work out time, rate, and distance problems
  • Contains no complex formulas and no unnecessary technical terms

About the Author

STEVE SLAVIN, Ph.D., is a professor of economics at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. He is the author of several textbooks and self-teaching guides, including Quick Business Math, Math for Your First and Second Grader, and Economics (all from Wiley).

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Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780471317517: All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide, Revised Edition (Wiley Self Teaching Guides)

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ISBN 10:  0471317519 ISBN 13:  9780471317517
Publisher: Wiley, 1999
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