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:
*Contains 88 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.
*Watch for pitfalls when working with percentage increase and decrease.
*Learn to solve equations by translating math into words and thinking conceptually.
*Be able to glance at basic graphs and grasp their underlying meaning.
*Master basic probability using a simple "flowchart" to identify key formulas.
*Understand correlation: weak or strong, positive or negative, linear or nonlinear.
*Gain a newfound confidence through an increased competency with numbers.

Book's contents: This book presents 88 classic math and numeracy problems interspersed across four chapters and three appendixes. Topics covered include: Chapter 1 - Mastering the Basic Building Blocks of Math (percentages, fractions and decimals, ratios and proportions); Chapter 2 - Translating Words into Numbers (classic translation scenarios, how to solve equations, tackling algebraic expressions, making tricky conversions); Chapter 3 - Understanding How Numbers Behave (relative measures vs. actual numbers, order of operations, reciprocals, odd numbers vs. even numbers, positive numbers vs. negative numbers, squares and cubes); Chapter 4 - Making Sense of Probability (probability, enumerations, permutations and combinations); Appendix I - The World of Numbers (number terminology, basic operations, number rules, divisibility rules); Appendix II - Mastering Basic Graphs (straight lines, curved lines, flat lines, sloping lines, correlation analysis); and Appendix III - Understanding How Variables Change (variable relationships: direct, indirect, proportional, disproportional).

Author's bio: Brandon Royal (CPA, MBA) is an award-winning writer whose educational authorship includes The Little Green Math Book, The Little Blue Reasoning, The Little Red Writing Book, The Little Gold Grammar Book, and The Little Red Writing Book Deluxe Edition. 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.

"As a professional educator with an insider's view of the educational systems in Europe and North America, I value learning materials that are long on substance and short on gimmicks. Page after page, you'll find useful tips, relevant examples, and expert summaries written in easy-to-understand language. It's a must-have for students and instructors for use in a wide variety of settings."
—Andreas Schotter, Ph.D., Wall Street Journal Distinguished Professor of the Year, Thunderbird School of Global Management