Reasoning with Numbers: Mastering the Thinking Skills That Unlock the Secrets of Basic Math - Couverture souple

Royal, Brandon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1897393652 ISBN 13 : 9781897393659

Editeur : Maven Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brandon Royal (CPA, MBA) is an award-winning writer whose educational authorship includes The Little Green Math Book, The Little Blue Reasoning Book, The Little Red Writing Book, and The Little Gold Grammar Book. During his tenure working in Hong Kong for US-based Kaplan Educational Centers — a Washington Post subsidiary and the largest test-preparation organization in the world — Brandon honed his theories of teaching and education and developed a set of key learning “principles” to help define the basics of writing, grammar, math, and reasoning. A Canadian by birth and graduate of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, his interest in writing began after completing writing courses at Harvard University. Since then he has authored a dozen books and reviews of his books have appeared in Time Asia magazine, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal of America, Midwest Book Review, The Asian Review of Books, Choice Reviews Online, Asia Times Online, and About.com. Brandon is a five-time winner of the International Book Awards, a five-time gold medalist at the President's Book Awards, as well as a winner of the Global eBook Awards, the USA Book News “Best Book Awards,” and recipient of the 2011 “Educational Book of the Year” award as presented by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta.

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For Math and Numeracy Aficionados from All Walks of Life

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:
* Develop a feel for how numbers behave and what makes math problems tick.
* Boost your numerical ability with a working knowledge of key math principles.
* Watch for pitfalls when working with percentage increase and decrease.
* Learn to solve equations by translating math into words and thinking conceptually.
* Glean insights into special problem-solving approaches, techniques, and shortcuts.
* Be able to glance at basic graphs and grasp their underlying meaning.
* Understand correlation: weak or strong, positive or negative, linear or nonlinear.
* Gain a newfound confidence through an increased competency with numbers.

"This book is focused on those thinking skills that are essential for mastering basic math. Such thinking skills are closely aligned with numeracy skills. When we talk of someone being numerate, we mean that he or she has a dexterity with numbers, and is much more likely to grasp those key principles that underlie the workings of basic math. Numeracy is more than performing calculations accurately; it combines the science of math with the art of numbers."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Maven Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1897393652
• ISBN 13: 9781897393659
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 46
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible