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Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up |  | Author: Mark Ryan
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0446677264
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN: 9780446677264
ASIN: 0446677264
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
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Product Description
Your dinner bill came to $78.35, plus tip, divided amongst you and two friends. So how did you end up paying $50? In life, there are plenty of instances where a quick calculation would come in handy. Contrary to popular belief, the ability to calculate a tip, eyeball square area, or convert kilometers to miles-without using your fingers or moving your lips-is not inborn. Everyday math skills can be painlessly learned and easily mastered, transforming you from a person who doesn't know the meaning of APR into someone who understands credit card rates and their long-term impact on your wallet. Broken into sections which review basic arithmetic from fractions to percents, provide situational problems from cooking to gambling, and demystify terms from statistics to relative magnitude to probability, this is the one guide that anyone who took "Math for English majors" can't live without.
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 Using Math in Real Life January 5, 2008
WillyMiranda (San Diego, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Full of Real life examples. The cost of credit cards and Mortgage interest rates. Metric system convertion. Fractions, Decimals and Percents. Consumer Price Indexes, Inflation and Money Matters. Probability and Odds. Basic Geometry. The U.S. System of Measurement and much more.
Rusty Math Book May 11, 2004
B. C. Harris (Memphis TN)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Everyday Math for Everyday Life could serve as a perfect stand-in for a math tutor! Mark Ryan's mathematic expertise coupled with a desire to help others is evident as he offers refreshing instruction to those of us with rusty math skill. Subtle humor splashed the pages while I learned to tackle seemingly complex situations involving math in my daily life. Never again will I fear helping children with math homework, nor will I avoid conversations involving finance or insurance. I might have overlooked it had I not been led to it during a math course, and for that I'm grateful, because it will hold center stage in my library from now on and should be the math book of choice for any average person as an invaluable resource of basic formulas and fundamental math concepts. Compared to other math books I've look through, this one is the easiest to read and follow. My conclusion is that everyone should have had a math instructor like Mr. Ryan. Owning his book is the next best thing.
Extremely worthwhile January 22, 2003
JP (Santa Barbara, CA)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
As someone who did research, fact-checking, and preliminary runthoughs for Mark during the early stages of this book's making, I know firsthand how much work went into it. He went well out of his way to make this book simultaneously entertaining and enlightening. The book is obviously geared toward those who aren't math-oriented, but it would be a welcome addition to a math-lover's collection as well. Someone who has enjoyed John Allen Paulos's books "Immumeracy" and "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper," would definately appreciate this too.
A must for anyone whose math skills have begun to rust December 14, 2002
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book is great. I was shopping around for a basic math book for my wife, who recently got a management position, and stumbled across Everyday Math for Everyday Life. Most of the other book choices were just pages and pages of numbers, but Mr. Ryan does a wonderful job of putting the numbers into readable and understandable words. It is also well organized and clearly indexed. Now, the book is not only on my wife's desk, but I bought another copy for our reference shelf at home. I found the practical examples and explanations so well put that I expect to use Everyday Math as a resource to help my two school age children with their homework.
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