U Can: Basic Math and Pre-Algebra For Dummies

INTRODUCTION 1PART I: GETTING STARTED WITH BASIC MATH AND PRE-ALGEBRA 5Chapter 1: Playing the Numbers Game 7Chapter 2: It's All in the Fingers: Numbers and Digits 15PART II: GETTING A HANDLE ON WHOLE NUMBERS 21Chapter 3: Putting the Big Four Operations to Work 23Chapter 4: A Question of Values: Evaluating Arithmetic Expressions 59Chapter 5: Say What? Turning Words into Numbers 81Chapter 6: Divisibility and Prime Numbers 103Chapter 7: Fabulous Factors and Marvelous Multiples 121PART III: PARTS OF THE WHOLE: FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, AND PERCENTS 135Chapter 8: Fooling with Fractions 137Chapter 9: Parting Ways: Fractions and the Big Four Operations 161Chapter 10: Dallying with Decimals 213Chapter 11: Playing with Percents 253Chapter 12: Word Problems with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents 273PART IV: PICTURING AND MEASURING: MEASURES, STATS, AND SETS 289Chapter 13: A Perfect Ten: Condensing Numbers with Scientific Notation 291Chapter 14: How Much Have You Got? Weights and Measures 305Chapter 15: Picture This: Basic Geometry 329Chapter 16: Figuring Your Chances: Statistics and Probability 361Chapter 17: Setting Things Up with Basic Set Theory 377PART V: THE X-FILES: INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA 387Chapter 18: Enter Mr. X: Algebra and Algebraic Expressions 389Chapter 19: Unmasking Mr. X: Algebraic Equations 421Chapter 20: Putting Mr. X to Work: Algebra Word Problems 447PART VI: THE PART OF TENS 465Chapter 21: Ten Little Math Demons That Trip People Up 467Chapter 22: Ten Important Number Sets to Know 473Chapter 23: Ten Curious Types of Numbers 479Chapter 24: Ten Alternative Numeral and Number Systems 485INDEX 493