Everyday Math Demystified: A Self-teaching Guide

By Stan Gibilisco

Book Overview

Solve your math troubles with DeMYSTiFieD If you cannot tell the difference between your Roman and Arabic numerals, or if when someone asks 'what is pi' you say "delicious," you need Everyday Math... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071431195
• ISBN13: 9780071431194
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Grateful for Stan Gibilisco and the Demystified books

We have several of Stan Gibilisco's Demystified books in our library. They get checked out often with positive reviews.

Math that Every Adult Should Know

As an educator (retired), I got an advance copy of this book. My first reaction was, "This is everyday math?!" Then in the third chapter it hit me: This is not necessarily what everyone knows (if that was the case, there would be no need for the book). It's what every American adult should know by the time they graduate from high school. Sadly, given the state of math education in this country, this book probably should have the subtitle "in an Ideal World." I recommend that anyone who wants to really understand math, and not just rush through it as some sort of evil necessity, study this book thoroughly -- after, or in addition to, their high school courses. And don't fret the abstract stuff. Math is abstract by its very nature.