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  • Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life
  • Written by author Lawrence Potter
  • Published by Pegasus, 9/5/2012
  • How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What's the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette? In this irreverent and entertaining guide to mathematics, Lawrence P
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Introduction: WHY? ix

Part 1 Numbers in Your Head, Figures on Paper

1 Small Steps 3

2 How Many Fingers? 8

3 Outside the Supermarket 13

4 Putting Two and Two Together 16

5 Go Forth and Multiply 20

6 'Countdown' 27

7 Putting Numbers to Paper 31

8 Borrowing and Carrying 40

9 Long, Long Multiplication 44

10 Long Division Explained 51

11 Checking It All Adds Up 59

Part 2 Different Kinds of Number

1 Kit-Kats and Kosher 67

2 A 'Ryche Shepemaster' 73

3 Proportion has its Problems 1 79

4 Proportion has its Problems 2 82

5 Colouring in Pizzas 89

6 What the Egyptians Did 93

7 Equivalent Fractions 95

8 Adding Fractions on Paper 99

9 Turn it Upside-Down and Multiply 103

10 What is the (Decimal) Point? 108

11 Manipulating Decimals 113

12 One Hundred Percent 123

13 Something of Interest 128

14 Prudence is a Virtue 133

15 Two Hundred Percent 138

Part 3 Fear of the Unknown

1 Algebra and Broken Bones 143

2 Doing the Same to Both Sides 148

3 Change All the Signs 157

4 False Assumptions 160

5 The Logic Behind Simultaneous Equations 163

6 Squabbling Schoolboys 168

7 Algebra is Democracy 171

8 The Saving of Charlie 175

Part 4 Chance Would be a Fine Thing

1 High Expectations for Probability 181

2 It's a Load of Balls 186

3 Muddy Waters 190

4 It's Not All About Numbers 196

5 The Weather Forecast is Wrong 202

6 Back to the Classroom 207

7 Putting Probability into Practice 214

8 Vegas, Baby! 218

9 The Law of Large Numbers 225

10 Gambling with Life Insurance 231

Closure 239

Appendlx A Dividing Fractions 245

Appendix B Putting Sudoku to Bed 249

Appendix C Answers to Puzzles 262

Puzzle Sources and Bibliography 271


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