Math Smart: The Savvy Student's Guide to Mastering Basic Math

by The Princeton Review, Marcia Lerner

NEVER GET CRUNCHED BY NUMBERS AGAIN. 

Even in a world where every cell phone is also a calculator, basic math competency is a must! In this book, you'll learn how to efficiently solve common problems and effortlessly perform foundational math operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Once you've got that down, we'll go over how to handle the scary stuff—like exponents, square roots, geometry, and algebra.

Our user-friendly techniques break complicated problems down into their basic parts, so that you don't waste your time memorizing dozens of long formulas and equations.

THIS THIRD EDITION INCLUDES:
· Back-to-basics reviews of numbers, fractions, ratios & proportions, exponents & roots, algebra, geometry, and probability & statistics
· Comprehensive reviews for solving problems in common math topics
· Targeted strategies to help you score higher on the quantitative sections of the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT
· Access to additional challenging drill questions online
· Key math terms lists at the end of each chapter

Genres: Self Help, Mathematics

354 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 16, 2018

About the author

The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981. and since that time has worked with over 400 million students.

Reviews

[Raphael · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my first math book outside of revision books and required textbooks. The lack of reviews here makes me write one. I hope someone else will write a review soon.

This book is actually good. It doesn't intimidate readers and explains formulas in layman's terms. It has humor, and the authors know how to make mathematical terms and formulas stick, which is very helpful for my bad memory.

It also has math drills and tricks on how to do mental math like:
42 × 120 = (40 × 120) + (2 ×120)

"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘩."

This book is a good teacher; it doesn't rush, is encouraging, and patient. It reminds readers multiple times throughout the book to make sure we are comfortable with the chapter or any math problems before moving on, or to go back to previous topics as many times as needed and reread as much as we like.

"𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦: 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰."

It accomplishes its aim to help anyone who wants to be better at math (beginner level).

The only problem I find is that, as someone with a short attention span, it can be difficult to digest long, wordy sentences (for me, this was in Chapter 6: Geometry). It was a little difficult for me because normally textbooks and revisions use more diagrams and figures, but this book uses words to explain things. But once I try to concentrate hard, this book is very good and a gem 💎.

First review 🙏🏻 I might come back and edit this for better clarity next time, but for now, I hope this review shows you that this book is worth it.

[Jemaris1 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Der Savvy Student's Guide to Mastering Basic Math ist eine hervorragende Ressource für alle, die ihre Mathematikkenntnisse verbessern möchten. Ganz gleich, ob Sie Anfänger sind oder eine Auffrischung benötigen: Dieser Leitfaden gliedert komplexe Konzepte in leicht verständliche Schritte. Es erinnert mich daran, wie wichtig es ist, eine durchdachte Herangehensweise an das Lernen zu wählen, ähnlich wie die Sorgfalt und Aufmerksamkeit, die man bei Psychotherapie Rosenheim erhält, wo das Verstehen der Wurzel eines Problems der Schlüssel zu seiner Lösung ist. Die klaren Erklärungen und praktischen Beispiele des Buches machen das Beherrschen der Mathematik nicht nur machbar, sondern auch unterhaltsam. Es ist ein Muss für Schüler, die eine solide Grundlage in Mathematik aufbauen möchten.