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• Refreshes practical math skills for your personal and professional needs, with examples based on everyday situations.
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• Contains no complex formulas and no unnecessary technical terms.
  

5 Responses to “All the Math You’ll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)”

1. Ivi says:

   August 14, 2009 at 12:00 am

   …and there are certainly not enough excercises in the book to make sure all that knowledge will stick. I was very dissappointed by this book. I expected it to be much better; I’ve been out of high school for 15 years and was never any good at math to begin with but now I need to go to college so I had to start from rock bottom and work my way up. Initially I hardly used this book, because most of the time I did, I just got fustrated with it. The beginning (addition, subtraction, ect) is all right, that is why I gave 2 stars instead of 1 but that’s about it. I think this book will suit people who had a previous strong foundation of math but they just haven’t used it for a long time, then this book can serve as a refresher.

   I didn’t want to waste my money so I still made the book somewhat helpful. I bought another by Danica McKellar; Math doesn’t suck and while it was written specifically for girls in elementary school, it can be very useful for grown ups too. I find her explanations much better. So I used her book to understand what was going on and completed the limited amount of excercises in All the math you’ll ever need.
   
   There might be other good basic math books out there besides Danica McKellar’s and something directed toward grown ups too but I needed something good and fast NOW.
2. Kaodake says:

   June 5, 2009 at 12:00 am

   This book is basically a short refresher course on highschool mathematics. Just like the title says, it’s all you’ll ever need in your daily life- and then some. I managed to work my way through it in just over two months, picking my way through it day by day. When I was finished, I was surprised and pleased with how much I learned. A well put together book.

   Six months later, though, I am slowly forgetting. Will need to go back and work through it again some time this year. Like exercise, you have to keep at it. Make a scheduel, I used a big piece of card paper as a bookmark and kept track of the date and pages I worked through that day on it. Don’t write in the actual book. It was also useful to cover the answer section, which is a bit too easy to see.

   Now on the economics book in this series by the same author, the math book was a good warm-up for that.
3. Robert Ortiz says:

   May 15, 2009 at 12:00 am

   The book is easy to read. I got into it immediately. I recommend the book!!!!
4. Gr84all says:

   February 10, 2009 at 12:00 am

   This book is a great resource for someone who wants to review and brush up his/her knowledge of math. It will teach you what you do not know, it will also re-teach [you] what you already know and in addition, you will learn new things that were initially scary to you as a young math student. I bought 2 copies as gifts to some friends who are being held back by math. As the name says, it is “all the math you ever need”. It is a must for every place where people are struggling with elementary math and pre-algebra.
5. C. Salas says:

   February 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

   This Math book is one of the best ever !!! Simple examples , Simple explanations ! This book makes Math fun .