The Little Green Math Book: 30 Powerful Principles for Building Math and Numeracy Skills - Softcover

Brandon Royal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897393504 ISBN 13: 9781897393505

Publisher: Maven Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

For Math Aficionados From All Walks of Life! The Little Green Math Book reads like a collection of math recipes to help us blend problems, principles, and approaches in creating our own lineup of splendid math cuisine. The book's four chapters include: (1) Basic Numeracy Ingredients, (2) Wonderful Math Recipes, (3) Favorite Numeracy Dishes, and (4) Special Math Garnishments. Along with 30 of the most fundamental, recurring math principles and rules, you'll find a three-tier system to rate the difficulty level of all problems -- one chili ("mild"), two chilies ("hot"), and three chilies ("very hot"). Fine-tune your numerical mindset with a quantitative review that serves as a refresher course and as a tool for perceiving math in a new way. Whether you're a high school or college student, test-prep candidate, or working professional, this book's wealth of explanations and insights makes it a perfect learning companion. Enjoy the benefits of your own self-paced math course: *Contains 120 all-star problems to help readers discover the secrets of basic math. *Develop a feel for how numbers behave and what makes math problems tick. *Learn to solve equations by translating math into words and thinking conceptually. *Watch for pitfalls when working with percentage increase and decrease. *Use simple math to solve "business" scenarios involving price, cost, volume, profit, and break-even, as well as how to calculate markup versus margin and efficiency. *Be able to glance at graphs and grasp their underlying meaning. *Understand correlation: weak or strong, positive or negative, linear or nonlinear. *Gain a newfound confidence with an increased competency with numbers.

About this title

Review:

"This book brilliantly shows the structure and subtlety of basic math. Math is a global language that knows no borders and opens opportunities for us all."

--Rick Frishman, author, speaker, and media expert; treasurer and secretary for the Dr. Mark Victor Hansen Foundation, "literacy to end poverty"

From the Publisher:

This book — a gold medal winner at the President’s Book Awards and winner of the USA Book News Best Book Awards — is suitable for high school and college students, as well as any individual wanting to improve his or her core essential math and numeracy skills.

About this edition

• Publisher: Maven Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1897393504
• ISBN 13: 9781897393505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284