Improve Your Math
Mathematics Magic and Mystery
Power Up Your Mind
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Consider Improve Your Math as a personal tutor: From basic arithmetic to fractions, from decimals to percentages, from algebra to geometry, from graph reading to statistics and probability, your child can get the extra practice necessary to master middle school math. This book includes page after page of problem-solving strategies that really work, in-depth explanations of difficult math concepts right in the lessons, and step-by-step guidance for tackling the different kinds of math problems found on standardized tests and classroom math tests. You’ll also find hundreds of practice problems with complete answer explanations and practice word problems that apply the skills learned in each section to situations encountered every day. Plus, there’s a pre-test and a post-test to help identify strengths and weaknesses and to show progress.
Famed puzzle expert explains math behind a multitude of mystifying tricks: card tricks, stage “mind reading,” coin and match tricks, counting out games, geometric dissections, etc. Probability, sets, theory of numbers clearly explained. Also, more than 400 tricks, guaranteed to work, that you can do. 135 illustrations.
Bill Lucas, a leading international expert on life-long learning, shows that while we have learned more about how the brain works in the last decade than we have ever known, only a fraction of this is grasped and applied by most people. Power Up Your Mind applies this practical knowledge for the first time and shows you how to learn. Drawing on research from a wide variety of subject areas, from neuroscience to psychology, from motivation theory to accelerated learning, from memory to diet, this book shows how everyone has the capacity to succeed and how most people use only a very small portion of their talents. For learning to be effective, an understanding of how the brain works is essential and unlike most of the recent thinking on the mind, Lucas connects an understanding of the brain with the reality of the workplace and translates what we know about the brain into useful insights for work. Much work-based training is a waste of time and money because the majority of people are neither emotionally ready nor practically inclined to apply their learning to the way they behave. Power Up Your Mind offers a new model of learning-READY, GO, STEADY-which will revolutionize the way you learn and perform.