The Little Green Math Book: 30 Powerful Principles for Building Math and Numeracy Skills

For Math Aficionados From All Walks of Life! The Little Green Math Book reads like a collection of math recipes to help us blend problems, principles, and approaches in creating our own lineup of splendid math cuisine. The book's four chapters include: (1) Basic Numeracy Ingredients, (2) Wonderful Math Recipes, (3) Favorite Numeracy Dishes, and (4) Special Math Garnishments. Along with 30 of the most fundamental, recurring math principles and rules, you'll find a three-tier system to rate the difficulty level of all 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 makes it a perfect learning companion. Enjoy the benefits of your own self-paced math course: *Contains 120 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. *Learn to solve equations by translating math into words and thinking conceptually. *Watch for pitfalls when working with percentage increase and decrease. *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 grasp their underlying meaning. *Understand correlation: weak or strong, positive or negative, linear or nonlinear. *Gain a newfound confidence with an increased competency with numbers.