More Rapid Math: Tricks and Tips: 30 Days to Number Mastery | 
| Author: Edward H. Julius
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 226
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0471122386
Dewey Decimal Number: 513.9
EAN: 9780471122388
ASIN: 0471122386
Publication Date: February 1996
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Math skills you can count on! pIn this eagerly awaited sequel to the popular Rapid Math Tricks and Tips, Professor Ed Julius shows you how to master difficult problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division quickly, easilyaeand without a calculator. And have fun while doing it! pBy learning one to two tricks a day for thirty days, you'll be amazed at the increase in your number power. Discover how you can quickly subtract by oversubtracting. Speed up your calculating with place-value multiplication. See how to add in seconds by breaking a number apart. More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips includes: ulliStep-by-step examples to explain each technique liOver 1,400 sample problems and practice exercises liChallenging "brain builders" to keep you on your toes liWeekly quizzes and a final exam so you can check your progress liFascinating mathematical curiosities and parlor tricks, such as the Amazing/ul pAge-Divining Trick and the Phenomenal Fifth-Root Trick pWhether calculating the total at the supermarket checkout, reconciling a bank statement, or figuring the sales tax on your latest purchase, More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips makes working with numbers fast, fun, and easy. It's a must for math lovers, as well as students, teachers, and anyone who works with numbers on a regular basis. p"Ed Julius has written another engaging book that will definitely excite the mind." ?Mick Horwitz, Founding Director Sierra Canyon College Preparatory School, p"The original Rapid Math Tricks and Tips has been a staple in my classroom for the past four years. The sequel is definitely another winner!" ?Laurie Curtis-Abbe, Teacher Anacapa Middle School, a California/National School of Excellence a U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Exemplary School
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 Excellent Way to Motivate Students Struggling with Math December 29, 2008
I use this with my kids all the time. They are all math lovers and they enjoy figuring out how the tricks "work". However, the biggest hit I've had in doing these in public is with people, adults and children, that somehow have qualified themselves as "non-math people". When I show them the tricks and immediately ask them to do them themselves they light up - they get all excited. This is a must have book for all math teachers and parents. This is a way to keep math fun and relevant. Relevant in the sense that most of the computations are things we need to do daily.
 Disappointing May 30, 2008
I have read the first of Julius' books, "Rapid Math Tricks and Tips", and found it very interesting. Therefore, I eagerly bought this sequel. But as I started reading, I found it very disappointing. The "tricks" are far from as good as the ones in the first book. You can hardly call them tricks at all! I got the feeling that after a successful first book, he had to write a second one. And having told all the good tricks in the first book, he had to come up with something to write in this. And what he came up with is not very exciting.br /br /My recommendation is to buy the first book, and not this.
Very good January 2, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great book.Really does get you thinking differently about mathematics.The stuff they teach you in school is just to complicated and drawn out.This is not.A must for those who want to 'cut to the chase'.
Tricks? yes, but some excellent rapid calculation methods October 21, 2001
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
While I haven't actually used this book I have used its predecessor and find that the two are very similar in format. I have gone through all 26 of the sample pages and found each trick or method is very well designed. Each consists of a concise but clear explanation, two or three fully explained examples followed by two sets of exercises. the first are easy applications; the second harder. All of the methods are valid rapid calculation devices. Unfortunately, most of the multiplication and division methods involve special cases which the average person may not ever see or recognize in typical daily encounters with the need for computation. The addition and subtraction methods are more general. The book will prove most valuable to someone who is already fairly accomplished in computation skills but wishes to brush up on them and, perhaps, to pick up a few rapid calculation methods which can be used very frequently. Otherwise, the book may help one brush up on rusty comp. skills or prove interesting in attempting to discover why the various tricks work (the author does not explain the mathematical basis on which the methods rest - he deals in how-to not why?. One final caution - if you have not memorized the basic arithmetic combinations of addition, subtraction, mulltiplication, and division this book is not for you.
wow May 31, 2000
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
excellent source of information for young minds. They'll thank you for getting them this book when they are older.
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