Back to School: 1,001 Facts You Learned and Forgot in High School

by Benjamin Smith

A refresher course in high school academics! What is Sir Isaac Newton's second law of motion? When do you use a colon in a sentence? How do you solve a Pythagorean Theorem equation? Back to School tests you on the concepts you learned in high school and probably don't remember. Each chapter crams four years of academics into easy-to-read entries that provide you with the most important facts on everything from mathematics and chemistry to literature and art history. Complete with a challenging final exam, you'll find out if you have what it takes to graduate at the top of the class with Back to School .

Genres: Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 2014

About the author

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Benjamin Smith is a former high school principal and teacher who delights in schooling people in facts they should already know. He lives with his wife in Connecticut.

Reviews

[Serena · Rating 5 out of 5]

With anybody these quick fact books, you know it's going to be a pretty broad overview. I thought this book picked up some great highlights, and I even learned a couple new things. This was great to read for a refresher - especially the nath section. Really enjoyed this read.

[American Wolf · Rating 3 out of 5]

All of this is basic things you learn in high school. Some of the things I feel like don't really help you learn like the language section it gives you like the history of the language but at least for me I need to hear it write it speak it. Also the math section, I skipped that part too. Math isn't my favorite or finest subject but there were too many numbers.

[Jordyn Jenkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its A really good book. I started reading it because I wanted to learn some cool facts and I did. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn a lot.

[Cathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A compilation of four years of knowledge, pared down into a bunch of noise. It was neither broad enough nor specific enough to provide any real use, even for trivia nights. It did follow the school years quite closely as to when students learned topics, though, with one glaring error: foreign languages. Students are learning to speak a foreign language over their four years, not the origins of the language itself. Also, of all the schools I was in, you were lucky to have German beyond the standard options of French and Spanish. Sure, some elite schools might've offered ones like Japanese or Russian, but I can guarantee that no standard U.S. school offers anything like Czech.