Essential Mathematics Book

List of Applications

List of Focus on Real-Data Applications

Preface

Feature Walk-Through

To The Student

Diagnostic Pretest

Chapter 1  Whole Numbers

1.1  Reading and Writing Whole Numbers

1.2  Adding Whole Numbers

1.3  Subtracting Whole Numbers

1.4  Multiplying Whole Numbers

1.5  Dividing Whole Numbers

1.6  Long Division

Summary Exercises on Whole Numbers

1.7  Rounding Whole Numbers

1.8  Exponents, Roots, and Order of Operations

1.9  Reading Pictographs, Bar Graphs, and Line Graphs

1.10  Solving Application Problems

Summary ~ Review Exercises ~ Test

Chapter 2  Multiplying and Dividing Fractions

2.1  Basics of Fractions

2.2  Mixed Numbers

2.3  Factors

2.4  Writing a Fraction in Lowest Terms

Summary Exercises on Fractions

2.5  Multiplying Fractions

2.6  Applications of Multiplication

2.7  Dividing Fractions

2.8  Multiplying and Dividing Mixed Numbers

Summary ~ Review Exercises ~ Test ~ Cumulative Review Exercises

Chapter 3  Adding and Subtracting Fractions

3.1  Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions

3.2  Least Common Multiples

3.3  Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions

3.4  Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers

3.5  Order Relations and the Order of Operations

Summary Exercises on Fractions

Summary ~ Review Exercises ~ Test ~ Cumulative Review Exercises

Chapter 4  Decimals

4.1  Reading and Writing Decimals

4.2  Rounding Decimals

4.3  Adding and Subtracting Decimals

4.4 Multiplying Decimals

4.5  Dividing Decimals

Summary Exercises on Decimals

4.6  Writing Fractions as Decimals

Summary ~ Review Exercises ~ Test ~ Cumulative Review Exercises

Chapter 5  Ratio and Proportion

5.1  Ratios

5.2  Rates

5.3  Proportions

5.4  Solving Proportions

Summary Exercises on Ratios, Rates, and Proportions

5.5  Solving Application Problems with Proportions

Summary ~ Review Exercises ~ Test ~ Cumulative Review Exercises

Chapter 6  Percent

6.1  Basics of Percent

6.2  Percents and Fractions

6.3  Using the Percent Proportion and Identifying the Components in a Percent Problem

6.4  Using Proportions to Solve Percent Problems

6.5  Using the Percent Equation

6.6  Solving Application Problems with Percent

6.7  Simple Interest

Summary Exercises on Percent

6.8  Compound Interest

Summary ~ Review Exercises ~ Test ~ Cumulative Review Exercises

Answers to Selected Exercises

Index

Videotape Index