Math Magic: How To Master Everyday Math Problems

Scott Flansburg · Victoria Hay

Jun 2015 · HarperCollins

About this ebook

National Bestseller: “Tricks for performing accurate mental calculations and fun alternate approaches to common math class difficulties.” —Library Journal

Millions of otherwise successful adults are afraid to balance their checkbooks and don’t know how to figure interest on savings or credit. Millions of students dread their math classes and live in fear of the math section of the SAT. But, as Scott Flansburg, “the human calculator,” demonstrates in this revised edition, anyone can put these phobias to rest and deal with essential everyday mathematical calculations with confidence!

• Master the basics

• The real way addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division work

• Simplify calculations through estimation

• Quick-check your answers

• Convert metric measures to more familiar ones

• Figure tips, taxes, and percentages—and never get shortchanged again!

Ratings and reviews

I feel that reading things through a textbook makes things too complicated (for free time). Many methods are very hard to master in this book, at least for me. I find my self preferring old ways, though the basic addition methods are handy.

Got original paperback version. Absolutely brilliant, unique way to approach maths from a different perspective, method works for me

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About the author

Scott Flansburg is the author of the bestselling book Math Magic. His lectures and his video, Turn on the Human Calculator in You, have helped countless children and adults learn the power of math. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.