Will you pay more a $19.99 shirt with a 20% discount or a $24.99 shirt with a 30% discount? Can you quickly calculate how many eggs you’ll need to make 100 pancakes, if your recipe says that 2 eggs make 20 pancakes? Can you reckon how much will a $30/month gym membership cost over the course of 24 months without writing anything or pulling out a calculator? The truth is, most of the math you find yourself doing on a day to day basis it's usually done in your head , that's why improving your mental math skills is always useful. If you’ve grown up hating math, that’s probably because you’ve been taught with the wrong approach. Math isn’t just boring formulas and pointless calculations , it can actually be a really useful skill. It can help you calculate a discount on the fly, easily multiply big numbers or quickly figure out how much dough packs you’ll need to make 50 cookies if one pack will be enough for 20. In this book you’ll find many tricks and practical strategies to improve your math skills, learn how to make calculations faster and solve everyday math problems more easily. And don’t worry… This isn’t your average and boring book on math theory. You’ll find helpful, to-the-point tips and tricks that will actually help you speed up and simplify the calculations you do in your everyday life. Here are some practical tricks you’ll
Sorry for the low rating but everytging in this book was already taught to us at school. Litteraly nothing new. This book was supposed to be tricks to helpt he students to solve the problems faster but honestly all that was listed was the strategies that we actually HAVE TO use.
Not many examples. There seems to be too many words to describe the problems. He does give some explanations for practical math. I recommend other books.