文档介绍：For Math Afi cionados from
All Walks of Life
HE LITTLE GREEN MATH BOOK reads like a collection of math recipes to
Thelp us blend problems, principles, and approaches in creating our own lineup
of splendid math cuisine. Along with 30 of the most fundamental, recurring math
principles and rules, you’ll fi nd a three-tier system to rate problems — one chili (mild),
two chilies (hot), and three chilies (very hot).
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 make it a perfect panion.
Enjoy the benefi ts of your own self-paced math course:
• Develop a feel for how numbers behave and what makes math problems tick.
• Review the five classic formulas governing percentage increase and decrease.
• Watch for pitfalls when expressing ratios as fractions, percents, or decimals.
• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of ratios as relative, not absolute, measures.
• Employ templates to solve math problems of similar category or type.
• Use simple math to solve “business” scenarios involving price, cost, volume, profit,
and break-even, as well as how to calculate markup versus margin and efficiency.
• Be able to glance at graphs and understand their underlying math themes.
• Understand correlation: weak or strong, positive or negative, linear or nonlinear.
• Gain a newfound confidence with an petency with numbers.
“This book brilliantly shows the structure and subtlety of basic math. Math is a
global language that knows no borders and opens opportunities for us all.”
— Rick Frishman, author, speaker, and media expert; treasurer and secretary for the
Dr. Mark Victor Hansen Foundation, “literacy to end poverty”
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Math & Numeracy Skills Reference
Maven Publishing
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