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I expected it to be much better; I've been out of high school for 15 years and was never any good at math to begin with but now I need to go to college so I had to start from rock bottom and work my way up. I think this book will suit people who had a previous strong foundation of math but they just haven't used it for a long time, then this book can serve as a refresher.I didn't want to waste my money so I still made the book somewhat helpful.
I find her explanations much better. I bought another by Danica McKellar; Math doesn't suck and while it was written specifically for girls in elementary school, it can be very useful for grown ups too.
.and there are certainly not enough excercises in the book to make sure all that knowledge will stick. The beginning (addition, subtraction, ect) is all right, that is why I gave 2 stars instead of 1 but that's about it.
So I used her book to understand what was going on and completed the limited amount of excercises in All the math you'll ever need.There might be other good basic math books out there besides Danica McKellar's and something directed toward grown ups too but I needed something good and fast NOW. I was very dissappointed by this book.
Initially I hardly used this book, because most of the time I did, I just got fustrated with it.
When I was finished, I was surprised and pleased with how much I learned. Don't write in the actual book. Just like the title says, it's all you'll ever need in your daily life- and then some.
Like exercise, you have to keep at it. It was also useful to cover the answer section, which is a bit too easy to see. Make a scheduel, I used a big piece of card paper as a bookmark and kept track of the date and pages I worked through that day on it.
This book is basically a short refresher course on highschool mathematics. Will need to go back and work through it again some time this year. Now on the economics book in this series by the same author, the math book was a good warm-up for that.
I managed to work my way through it in just over two months, picking my way through it day by day. A well put together book.Six months later, though, I am slowly forgetting.
I recommend the book. The book is easy to read. I got into it immediately.
As the name says, it is "all the math you ever need". I bought 2 copies as gifts to some friends who are being held back by math. It is a must for every place where people are struggling with elementary math and pre-algebra. This book is a great resource for someone who wants to review and brush up his/her knowledge of math. It will teach you what you do not know, it will also re-teach [you] what you already know and in addition, you will learn new things that were initially scary to you as a young math student.
This book makes Math fun. This Math book is one of the best ever. Simple examples , Simple explanations.
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