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Summary: Good for people who like me had poor math skills.
Comment: Good explanations for a math dummy who used to get poor grades in school many years ago. I don't want to die dumb...

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Summary: Opps, not the right "Everyday Mathmatics" book
Comment: This book was not what I wanted, but is useful all the same. I was looking for the new method of teaching math to children, it also is called EVERYDAY MATH - OR maybe it is called EVERYDAY MATHMATICS. regardless, it is useful and can be handed down to my daughter when she uses it from everything to balancing the check book to re-calculating recipies, etc.

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Summary: Provides Much Helpful Information
Comment: My son picked up "Everyday Math for Dummies" at the library. He saw the word "Math" and had to have it. Once he saw that it contained more words than numbers, however, he put it down. As I flipped through it I decided I would bring it home anyway, if only for the chapter on balancing your checkbook, a task I have always struggled to master. This is actually a very good book, providing an introduction to the Math that you wish that they would teach you in school - like how to balance a checkbook, figure out compound interest (OK - I think they taught that one in school but it had little real-world applicability at that point), and how to understand stock values and mortgage rates. And for those of you who really want to understand what they wanted to teach you in Algebra and Trig, it provides sections on that as well (I'll admit I skipped over those). I read the reviews on Amazon and some mentioned that it wasn't simple enough. I can understand that. You do need some understanding of basic math to get this book - adding, subtraction, multiplication, division, and percentages are all taken for granted here. Still, it was very interesting and helped explain some topics that had eluded me for years.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A lot of marginally useful arithmetic
Comment: I was looking for a book that reviewed basic math(i.e. grammar school multiplication, fractions, decimals, percentages, etc.) This book covered topics such as mortgages, how to calculate tips, etc. It wasn't a match.

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Summary: Peter Roth's Book Review
Comment: All-in-all, a good book. I still had some difficulty in reading the author's explanations.

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