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Arithmetic the Easy Way

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ISBN-10: 0764129139

ISBN-13: 9780764129131

Edition: 4th 2006

Authors: Edward Williams, Katie Prindle

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Everybody uses arithmetic on virtually a daily basis, and this book serves as a handy brush-up for general readers while it also helps students master basic skills that they need before moving up to high-school-level math and beyond. It reviews addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, then moves on to calculating with fractions, decimals, and percentages. A concluding chapter reviews units of measurement and word problems. Chapters are filled with short practice exercises, all of which are answered at the back of the book. The book features many tables, charts, and line illustrations. Barron'sEasy Waybooks introduce a variety of academic and practical subjects to students and…    
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Book details

List price: $14.99
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Publication date: 1/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 8.00" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Reference Tables
We Can Work Together
Pretest 1
Number Symbols We Use
Counting and Tallying
One-Digit, Two-Digit, and Larger Numbers
Each Place Has a Value
Even Nothing Means Something
Old Number Systems Still Influence Us
Chapter Test 1
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 1
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
It All Adds Up!
Pretest 2A
Whole Numbers
The Language of Addition
Help from the Number Line
Nothing Is Still Important
Unequal Place Addition
No Addition Problem Is Long
Word Problems
Chapter Test 2A
Answers to Chapter Test 2A
Answers to Pretest 2A and Practice Exercises
Pretest 2B
Every Number Has Its Place
Place Value and Column Addition
Longer Columns of Numbers
When the Columns Are Broken
Know the Combinations
More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Addition
More Problems with Addition
Chapter Test 2B
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 2B
Answers to Pretest 2B and Practice Exercises
Take It Away! Subtraction
Pretest 3
What Happens in Subtraction?
The Language of Subtraction
Help from the Number Line
Unequal Place Subtraction
Word Problems
Subtraction by Addition
Numbers Can Be Exchanged
Exchanging in Subtraction
More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Subtraction
Chapter Test 3
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 3
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Remember Those Times? Multiplication
Pretest 4
Multiplication Is Repeated Addition
Help from the Number Line
Multiplying Whole Numbers
Those Old Combinations Again
Multiplying by a One-Digit Number
Word Problems
Multiplying by a Number Having Two or More Digits
Multiplication Applied to Measuring
More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Multiplication
Chapter Test 4
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 4
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Let's Divide It Up!
Pretest 5
What Is Division?
The Language of Division
You Still Need Those Combinations
Help from the Number Line
Dividing by a One-Digit Number
When the Quotient Contains Fewer Places Than the Dividend
Zero as a Place Holder
Dividing and Leaving a Remainder
Carrying Remainders
Word Problems Requiring Division
Dividing by More Than a One-Digit Number
More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Division
Mean, Median, and Mode
Division Applied to Area Measurement
Chapter Test 5
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 5
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
The Important Parts-Fractions
Pretest 6
What Is a Fraction?
The Language of a Fraction
What Kinds of Fractions Are There?
Simplifying Fractions
Equivalent Fractions
Which Fraction Is Larger or Smaller?
Changing Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers
Changing Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions
Chapter Test 6
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 6
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Piece by Piece-Adding Fractions
Pretest 7
Fractions Can Be Added
After Adding, What Next?
Fractions Whose Sum Is One
Fractions Whose Sum Is Greater Than One
Mixed Numbers Can Also Be Added
Mixed Numbers Whose Sum May Be Simplified
Mixed Numbers Whose Fractional Parts Add Up to One
Mixed Numbers with Fractional Parts Whose Sum Is Greater Than One
Word Problems
What About Those Denominators?
Mixing Them All Up
More Difficult Word Problems
Chapter Test 7
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 7
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Subtracting Fractions
Pretest 8
Subtracting Fractions
After Subtracting, What Next?
Like Fractions Whose Difference Is One or Greater Than One
Mixed Numbers Can Also Be Subtracted
Exchanging in Subtracting Fractions
Exchanging in Subtracting Mixed Numbers (Like Denominators)
Word Problems
Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Exchanging in Subtracting Mixed Numbers (Unlike Denominators)
More Difficult Word Problems
Chapter Test 8
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 8
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Pretest 9A
The Product of Two Fractions
Cancellation
Finding Parts of Whole Numbers
Multiplying Three or More Fractions
Multiplying Mixed Numbers
Word Problems
Chapter Test 9A
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 9A
Answers to Pretest 9A and Practice Exercises
Pretest 9B
The Quotient of Two Fractions
Dividing Mixed Numbers
Word Problems
Chapter Test 9B
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 9B
Answers to Pretest 9B and Practice Exercises
What's the Point? Decimals
Pretest 10
Introducing Decimals
Reading and Writing Decimals
Which Fraction Equals Which Decimal?
Comparing Decimals
Rounding Off Decimals
Chapter Test 10
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 10
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Pretest 11A
Adding Decimals
Adding Mixed Decimals
Word Problems Requiring the Addition of Decimals
Chapter Test 11A
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 11A
Answers to Pretest 11A and Practice Exercises
Pretest 11B
Subtracting Decimals
Subtracting Mixed Decimals
Word Problems Requiring the Subtraction of Decimals
Chapter Test 11B
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 11B
Answers to Pretest 11B and Practice Exercises
Multiplying Decimals
Pretest 12
Multiplying a Decimal by a Whole Number
Multiplying Decimal Numbers
Special Multipliers of 10, 100, 1,000, and so on
Word Problems Requiring the Multiplication of Decimals
Chapter Test 12
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 12
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Dividing Decimals
Pretest 13
Dividing a Decimal by a Whole Number
Zero As a Place Holder in the Quotient
Changing a Fraction into a Decimal
Dividing a Decimal by a Decimal
Zero As a Place Holder in the Dividend
Word Problems Requiring the Division of Decimals
Special Divisors of 10, 100, 1,000, and so on
Changing a Decimal into a Fraction
Rewriting Decimals with Fractions
Word Problems Combining Fractions and Decimals
Chapter Test 13
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 13
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Percents
Pretest 14
Meaning of Percent
Changing Percents to Decimals
Changing Decimals to Percents
Changing Percents to Fractions
Changing Fractions to Percents
Finding a Percent of a Number
Finding the Percent That One Number Is of Another
Finding a Number When a Percent of It is Known
Chapter Test 14
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 14
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises
Measurement
Pretest 15
Units of Measurement
Adding Measures
Subtracting Measures
Multiplying Measures
Dividing Measures
Word Problems Requiring Measures
Converting Metric Measures
Chapter Test 15