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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royal, Brandon, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Numeracy.

Number concept.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) ; illustrations.

Edition:

3.

Place of Publication:

Calgary : Maven Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, readers will find a three-tier system to rate the difficulty level of all problems – one chili ("mild"), two chilies ("hot"), and three chilies ("very hot"). 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. Topics covered in this book by chapter include: Chapter 1 – Basic Numeracy Ingredients (percentages, ratios and proportions, reciprocals, order of operations); Chapter 2 – Wonderful Math Recipes (overlap scenarios, matrix scenarios, mixture scenarios, weighted average scenarios); Chapter 3 – Favorite Numeracy Dishes (markup vs. margin, price-cost-volume and profit, break-even point, aggregate costs vs. per-unit costs, efficiency, distribution and allocation); Chapter 4 – Special Math Garnishments (translating basic graphs: line graphs, pie charts, and bar charts, correlation, measures of average and dispersion, and statistical significance); Appendix I – Numeracy Principles 1 to 30 (summary of all principles); Appendix II – The World of Numbers (number terminology, basic operations, number rules, divisibility rules); Appendix III – Translating Words into Numbers (classic translation scenarios, how to solve equations, making tricky conversions); Appendix IV – Tackling Squares and Cubes (using the "big" seven numbers); and Appendix V – Understanding How Variables Change (relationships: direct, indirect, proportional, disproportional). This book – a gold medal winner at the President's Book Awards and winner of the USA Book News Best Book Awards – is suitable for high school and college students, as well as any individual wanting to improve his or her core essential math and numeracy skills. "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"

Contents:

1. Basic Numeracy Ingredients. Percentages

Ratios and proportions

Reciprocals

Order of operations

2. Wonderful Math Recipes. Overlap scenarios

Matrix scenarios

Mixture scenarios

Weighted average scenarios

3. Favorite Numeracy Dishes. Markup vs. margin

Price, cost, volume, and profit

Break-even point

Aggregate costs vs. per-unit costs

Efficiency

Distribution and allocation

4. Special Math Garnishments. Translating basic graphs

Line graphs, pie charts, and bar charts

Correlation

Measures of average and dispersion

Statistical significance

Numeracy principles 1 to 30

The world of numbers.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-897393-52-0

1-897393-51-2