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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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