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Smart Guide to Practical Math is a book designed to enable anyone who can use a calculator to answer a large number of questions that commonly arise in everyday life. Whether you are a housewife or an auto mechanic, a doctor or a lawyer, a student or a businessman, Smart Guide to Practical Math has the answers to the questions you want answered in a form that enables you to easily answer them.
In forty years of teaching mathematics, the author has found that the question students most want to see answered is "What formula do I plug these numbers into?” That's generally the question most people want to see answered, because formulas represent the easiest way to get the solutions to the problems that you need to solve.
Whether you want to know how many pounds of hamburger you need to make enough meat loaf for 12 people, or how much to invest annually to have enough to send your child to college, or if it's really a good idea to buy a fuel additive for your car, there's a formula that answers your questions.
Smart Guide to Practical Math enables you to "do the math” - without having to do the math, because Smart Guide to Practical Math does the math for you. You simply find a problem which looks like the problem you want to solve, and plug your numbers into the convenient formula. Practical math - for practical problems - neatly packaged for you.
In forty years of teaching mathematics, the author has found that the question students most want to see answered is "What formula do I plug these numbers into?” That's generally the question most people want to see answered, because formulas represent the easiest way to get the solutions to the problems that you need to solve.
Whether you want to know how many pounds of hamburger you need to make enough meat loaf for 12 people, or how much to invest annually to have enough to send your child to college, or if it's really a good idea to buy a fuel additive for your car, there's a formula that answers your questions.
Smart Guide to Practical Math enables you to "do the math” - without having to do the math, because Smart Guide to Practical Math does the math for you. You simply find a problem which looks like the problem you want to solve, and plug your numbers into the convenient formula. Practical math - for practical problems - neatly packaged for you.
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Jim Stein is a Professor of Mathematics at California State University in Long Beach. A graduate of Yale University with a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, Jim has written 30 technical articles on mathematics and several books explaining mathematics for general audiences. His books How Math Explains the World and How Math Can Save Your Life were selections for the Scientific American Book Club. His book The Right Decision resulted in his being invited to be a guest blogger for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
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- PublisherSmart Guide Publications Inc.
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0983442126
- ISBN 13 9780983442127
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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