Math For Real Life For Dummies

Learn to: Get the skills you need to tackle everyday math problems Know which math to use when shopping, driving, and investing Brush up on basic math skills and concepts Brush up on the math skills you need in your everyday life Need to sharpen your math skills to handle everyday encounters, like calculating restaurant tips, understanding interest rates, and figuring out percentages and odds? Packed with real-world examples, Math For Real Life For Dummies gives you plain-English explanations of the simple math formulas and operations you're likely to encounter in the workplace, the kitchen, and even when playing games. Brush up on the basics — get basic math from counting and simple arithmetic to broader concepts like statistics Math to the rescue — discover how to do the calculations that spring up while shopping, cooking, dining out, trying to lose weight, and more Manage money with math — get a handle on the general principles, specialized terms, and strategies to create a budget, better manage your bank account and check register, avoid credit card debt, and invest more wisely Room for improvement —see calculations you can do in your head and games you can play to build your math skills and sharpen your critical thinking Open the book and find: Math tricks that help you perform quick calculations in your head Ways to apply math formulas and principles to craft, home improvement, and yard projects How to make conversions, understand statistics, calculate odds, use percentages, and more Math solutions for day-to-day activities such as cooking, dining out, shopping, and banking Ten games that build math skills

Introduction 1 Part I: Boning Up on Math Basics 7 Chapter 1: Awesome Operations: Math Fundamentals 9 Chapter 2: High School Reunion: Revisiting Key Principles of Algebra and Geometry 27 Chapter 3: Becoming a Believer: Conversion, Statistics, Probability and More 47 Chapter 4: The Miracle of Mental Math 59 Part II: Math for Everyday Activities 71 Chapter 5: Let’s Make a Deal! Math You Use When Shopping 73 Chapter 6: Mmm, Mmm, Good: Kitchen Calculations 97 Chapter 7: It Does a Body Good: Math for Health and Well–Being  109 Chapter 8: Putting Geometry to Work at Home 129 Chapter 9: Math and Statistics around Town and on the Road 141 Part III: Math to Manage Your Personal Finances 161 Chapter 10: Budgets, Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, and More 163 Chapter 11: Key Principles of Investment Math 183 Chapter 12: Covering Your Assets: Insurance Math 203 Chapter 13: Taking Math to Work 215 Chapter 14: How Taxing! (Almost) Understanding the Government 229 Part IV: The Part of Tens 241 Chapter 15: Ten Quick Calculations You Can Do in Your Head 243 Chapter 16: Ten Activities That Build Math Skills 249 Index 255

Barry Schoenborn, a longtime math, science, and technical writer, is the coauthor of Technical Math For Dummies, Medical Dosage Calculations For Dummies, and Physician Assistant Exam For Dummies.