More Rapid Math: Tricks and Tips: 30 Days to Number Mastery
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Book Overview
Math skills you can count on! In this eagerly awaited sequel to the popular Rapid Math Tricks andTips, Professor Ed Julius shows you how to master difficultproblems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and divisionquickly, easily?and without a calculator. And have fun while doingit! By learning one to two tricks a day for thirty days, you'll beamazed at the increase in your number power. Discover how you canquickly subtract by oversubtracting. Speed up your calculating withplace-value multiplication. See how to add in seconds by breaking anumber apart. More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips includes:
* Step-by-step examples to explain each technique
* Over 1,400 sample problems and practice exercises
* Challenging "brain builders" to keep you on your toes
* Weekly quizzes and a final exam so you can check your progress
* Fascinating mathematical curiosities and parlor tricks, such asthe Amazing Age-Divining Trick and the Phenomenal Fifth-Root Trick Whether calculating the total at the supermarket checkout, reconciling a bank statement, or figuring the sales tax on yourlatest purchase, More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips makes working withnumbers fast, fun, and easy. It's a must for math lovers, as wellas students, teachers, and anyone who works with numbers on aregular basis. "Ed Julius has written another engaging book that will definitelyexcite the mind." --Mick Horwitz, Founding Director Sierra CanyonCollege Preparatory School, "The original Rapid Math Tricks and Tips has been a staple in myclassroom for the past four years. The sequel is definitely anotherwinner!" --Laurie Curtis-Abbe, Teacher Anacapa Middle School, aCalifornia/National School of Excellence a U.S. Department ofEducation Blue Ribbon Exemplary School
* Step-by-step examples to explain each technique
* Over 1,400 sample problems and practice exercises
* Challenging "brain builders" to keep you on your toes
* Weekly quizzes and a final exam so you can check your progress
* Fascinating mathematical curiosities and parlor tricks, such asthe Amazing Age-Divining Trick and the Phenomenal Fifth-Root Trick Whether calculating the total at the supermarket checkout, reconciling a bank statement, or figuring the sales tax on yourlatest purchase, More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips makes working withnumbers fast, fun, and easy. It's a must for math lovers, as wellas students, teachers, and anyone who works with numbers on aregular basis. "Ed Julius has written another engaging book that will definitelyexcite the mind." --Mick Horwitz, Founding Director Sierra CanyonCollege Preparatory School, "The original Rapid Math Tricks and Tips has been a staple in myclassroom for the past four years. The sequel is definitely anotherwinner!" --Laurie Curtis-Abbe, Teacher Anacapa Middle School, aCalifornia/National School of Excellence a U.S. Department ofEducation Blue Ribbon Exemplary School
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0471122386
ISBN13:9780471122388
Release Date:March 1996
Publisher:Wiley
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 7.1" x 9.9"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Excellent Way to Motivate Students Struggling with Math
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I use this with my kids all the time. They are all math lovers and they enjoy figuring out how the tricks "work". However, the biggest hit I've had in doing these in public is with people, adults and children, that somehow have qualified themselves as "non-math people". When I show them the tricks and immediately ask them to do them themselves they light up - they get all excited. This is a must have book for all math teachers and parents. This is a way to keep math fun and relevant. Relevant in the sense that most of the computations are things we need to do daily.
Very good
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Great book.Really does get you thinking differently about mathematics.The stuff they teach you in school is just to complicated and drawn out.This is not.A must for those who want to 'cut to the chase'.
Tricks? yes, but some excellent rapid calculation methods
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
While I haven't actually used this book I have used its predecessor and find that the two are very similar in format. I have gone through all 26 of the sample pages and found each "trick" or method is very well designed. Each consists of a concise but clear explanation, two or three fully explained examples followed by two sets of exercises. the first are easy applications; the second harder. All of the methods are valid rapid calculation devices. Unfortunately, most of the multiplication and division methods involve special cases which the average person may not ever see or recognize in typical daily encounters with the need for computation. The addition and subtraction methods are more general. The book will prove most valuable to someone who is already fairly accomplished in computation skills but wishes to brush up on them and, perhaps, to pick up a few rapid calculation methods which can be used very frequently. Otherwise, the book may help one brush up on rusty comp. skills or prove interesting in attempting to discover why the various "tricks" work (the author does not explain the mathematical basis on which the methods rest - he deals in "how-to" not "why?". One final caution - if you have not memorized the basic arithmetic combinations of addition, subtraction, mulltiplication, and division this book is not for you.
wow
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
excellent source of information for young minds. They'll thank you for getting them this book when they are older.
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