Quick and Easy Mathematics

By Isaac Asimov and Айзек Азимов

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395065739
• ISBN13: 9780395065730
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Quick and Easy Mathematics - A goal for our time

Isaac Asimov is the superb master of explanation! He proves it when he easily explains methods for calculations from the very basic to the quite complicated. Dr. Asimov has discussed many subjects over the past 60+ years. All have shown insight into each particular suject.But this book shows a true Grand Master doing what he does best; explain.He shows a mastery of math problems can be easy and fun! If you have trouble with math in any form, this is the book for you!

Calculating without a calculator is easier than you think!

This book shaped my life. I still have the algrebra medal that I won in ninth grade, partly because I checked out "Quick and Easy Math" again and again from the public library. Not only will it teach you ways to calculate in your head faster than you could on paper, but some of the methods require you to look at numbers with a bit more insight than the usual school child who memorizes the "times tables." In every case, Asimov explains clearly WHY the methods work, imparting valuable ideas as well as cute calculating tricks. How many of us know how to multiply any number by 999, quickly and without pencil, paper or calculator? Easy as can be, IF you know the principle behind it. Not every reader will become a mathematician as I did, but every reader will benefit from the power this book will give you over numbers, whether you are still in school or ready to impress your grandchildren.