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• Basic Maths Practice Problems For Dummies
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Author’s Acknowledgments
• Contents at a Glance
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Conventions Used in This Book
• What You’re Not to Read
• Foolish Assumptions
• How This Book Is Organised
• Part I: The Building Blocks of Maths
• Part II: Working with Parts of the Whole
• Part III: Real-life Maths
• Part IV: Speaking Statistically
• Part V: The Part of Tens
• Icons Used in This Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part I: The Building Blocks of Maths
• Chapter 1: Getting Started
• Covering the Basics
• Talking Yourself Up
• Collecting the tools you need
• Handling Whole Numbers
• Managing Measurements
• Speaking statistically
• Working through Questions and Answers
• Chapter 2: Introducing the Basics: Addition and Subtraction
• Adding Up Small and Large Numbers
• Starting with 1 to 10
• Working up to bigger numbers
• Attempting some adding questions
• Subtracting Small and Large Numbers
• Starting with 1 to 20
• Working up to bigger numbers
• Attempting some subtracting questions
• Doing Sums with a Number Line
• Getting to grips with negative numbers
• Tackling some negative number questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Adding questions
• Subtracting questions
• Negative number questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 3: Equal Piles: Multiplying and Dividing
• Getting on the Grid: Multiplying the Easy Way
• Memorising your times tables
• Timesing by ten
• Drawing the grid
• Working out long multiplication
• Attempting some multiplication questions
• Splitting Things Up: Division
• Working out short division
• Cancelling down
• Getting to the bottom of long division
• Attempting some division questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Multiplying questions
• Division questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 4: Are We Nearly There Yet? Estimating and Rounding
• Rounding Numbers Off
• Naming the nearest number
• Dealing with decimal places
• Attempting rounding questions
• Answering approximately
• Attempting some approximation questions
• Bracing Yourself for BIDMAS
• Investigating indices
• Doing things in order
• Finding the formula
• Attempting some BIDMAS questions
• Working through review questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Rounding questions
• Approximation questions
• BIDMAS questions
• Review questions
• Part II: Working with Parts of the Whole
• Chapter 5: Facing Fractions without Fear
• Recognising Fractions
• Recognising names of fractions
• Finding the right fraction
• Drawing the right picture
• Attempting some recognition questions
• Keeping Things Fair
• Cancelling down
• Cancelling up
• Attempting some equivalent fractions questions
• Finding a Fraction of a Number
• Working backwards
• Increasing and decreasing
• Attempting some fraction of a number questions
• Comparing Fractions
• Same or different bottoms
• Several fractions
• Attempting some comparing fractions questions
• Adding and taking away fractions
• Adding fractions
• Taking away fractions
• Attempting some adding and taking away fractions questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Recognising fractions questions
• Equivalent fractions questions
• Fraction of a number questions
• Comparing fractions questions
• Adding and taking away fractions questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 6: What’s the Point? Dealing with Decimals
• Working with Powers of Ten
• Dealing with the dot
• Multiplying by powers of ten
• Dividing by powers of ten
• Attempting some powers of ten questions
• Diving into Decimal Sums
• Adding and subtracting decimals
• Multiplying and dividing decimals
• Going off the end
• Attempting some decimal sum questions
• Converting Decimals
• Fixing fractions
• Dealing with a recurring problem
• Converting decimals to fractions
• Attempting some converting decimals questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Powers of ten questions
• Decimal sums questions
• Converting decimals questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 7: It’s All Relative: Tackling Ratio and Proportion
• Taking on the Table of Joy
• Drawing it out and filling it in
• Doing the sum
• Attempting some Table of Joy questions
• Rattling Off Ratios
• Simplifying ratios
• Working out parts
• Working out totals
• Working out three-part ratios
• Attempting some ratio questions
• Scaling Up and Down
• Going bigger and smaller
• Attempting some scaling questions
• Magnifying Maps
• Making it map-sized
• Making it full-sized
• Finding the scale
• Attempting some map questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Table of Joy questions
• Ratio questions
• Scaling questions
• Map questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 8: Working Out Perfect Percentages, 100% of the Time
• Converting Percentages
• Percentages to decimals
• Decimals to percentages
• Percentages to fractions
• Fractions to percentages
• Attempting some converting percentages questions
• Splitting Things Up
• Picking a percentage
• Picking a number
• Attempting some splitting things up questions
• Calculating Change
• Adding on tax and tips
• Buying in a sale
• Attempting some taxes, tips and sales questions
• Working out interest
• Dealing with deposits and payment plans
• Attempting some interest and deposit questions
• Finding the right equation
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Converting percentages questions
• Splitting things up questions
• Taxes, tipping and sales questions
• Interest and deposit questions
• Review questions
• Part III: Real-life Maths
• Chapter 9: Clocking Time
• Telling the Time
• Ticking along like clockwork
• Marching to military time
• Attempting some clock questions
• Starting and Ending on Time
• Working out starting times
• Lasting the distance
• Calculating ending times
• Attempting some scheduling questions
• Following Timetables
• Taking your time
• Attempting some timetable questions
• Speeding Along
• Ensuring your sum makes sense
• Attempting some speed questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Clock questions
• Scheduling questions
• Timetable questions
• Speed questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 10: Counting the Cash: Dealing with Money
• Calculating with Cash
• Making sense of money sums
• Lining up your dots
• Picking the right sum
• Attempting some cash calculation questions
• Converting Currency
• Changing money
• Finding the rate
• Attempting some currency questions
• Mastering More Complicated Money Sums
• Counting the cost
• Dealing with deposit schemes
• Attempting some more complicated money questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Cash calculation questions
• Currency questions
• More complicated money questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 11: Working with Weights
• Reading Scales
• Making sensible guesses
• Attempting some reading scales questions
• Converting Weights
• Looking at different metric measures
• Comparing metric and imperial measures
• Attempting some converting weights questions
• Shopping and Cooking using Weights
• Working out the price of eggs
• Calculating for cookery
• Attempting some shopping and cooking questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Reading scales questions
• Converting weights questions
• Shopping and cooking questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 12: Feeling the Heat: Getting to Grips with Temperature
• Reading a Thermometer
• Attempting some reading a thermometer questions
• Looking at Temperature in Three Different Ways
• Nailing negative numbers
• Warming up and cooling down
• Working out differences between temperatures
• Putting temperatures in order
• Attempting some temperature questions
• Fiddling with Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Converting from a graph or table
• Using a formula
• Attempting some Celsius and Fahrenheit questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Reading a thermometer questions
• Temperature questions
• Celsius and Fahrenheit questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 13: Sizing Up Shapes
• Working in Different Units of Length
• Attempting some unit of length questions
• Looking out for length
• Keeping your distance
• Walking around the perimeter
• Attempting some length, distance and perimeter questions
• Working out Length Conversions with the Table of Joy
• Converting lengths
• Keeping to scale
• Attempting some conversion and scale questions
• Filling Things Up
• Working out the volume
• Battling with boxes
• Attempting some volume and capacity questions
• Calculating Area
• Attempting some area questions
• Compounding shapes
• Laying plans
• Attempting some plan questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Unit of length questions
• Length, distance and perimeter questions
• Conversion and scale questions
• Volume and capacity questions
• Area questions
• Plan questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 14: Sharpening Your Knowledge of Shapes
• Showing Off Your Shape Vocabulary
• Recognising 2D shapes
• Spotting 3D shapes
• Attempting some shape vocabulary questions
• Turning the Corner with Angles
• Measuring angles
• Investigating angles in shapes
• Attempting some angles questions
• Simplifying Symmetry
• Flipping things over
• Turning things around
• Attempting some symmetry questions
• Breaking Shapes Down
• Folding up shapes: Nets
• Looking from all sides: Elevations
• Attempting some nets and elevations questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Shape vocabulary questions
• Angles questions
• Symmetry questions
• Nets and elevations questions
• Review questions
• Part IV: Speaking Statistically
• Chapter 15: Mining Data (No Hard Hat Required)
• Reading Graphs and Tables
• Nailing down number tables
• Attempting some number table questions
• Totting up tally charts
• Attempting some tally chart questions
• Picking off pictograms
• Attempting some pictogram questions
• Breaking into bar charts
• Attempting some bar chart questions
• Toeing the line (graph)
• Attempting some line graph questions
• Drawing perfect pie charts
• Attempting some pie chart questions
• Investigating Faulty Graphs
• Working out what’s wrong
• Attempting some faulty graph questions
• Grappling with Harder Graph Questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Number table questions
• Tally chart questions
• Pictogram questions
• Bar chart questions
• Line graph questions
• Pie chart questions
• Faulty graph questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 16: Grappling with Graphs
• Picking the Right Graph
• Attempting some picking the right graph questions
• Drawing Pie Charts
• Attempting some pie chart questions
• Finding Faults
• Identifying the broken axis error
• Missing the key
• Attempting some finding fault questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Picking the right graph questions
• Pie chart questions
• Finding fault questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 17: Average Joe: Sussing Out Statistics
• Asking about Averages
• Meeting the mean
• Middling the median
• Making the most of the mode
• Attempting some averages questions
• Grouping Things Together
• Making up the mean
• Finding the median
• Spotting the mode
• Attempting some grouped frequency questions
• Ranging About
• Attempting some range questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Averages questions
• Grouped frequency questions
• Range questions
• Review questions
• Chapter 18: What Are the Chances? Playing with Probability
• Figuring Out the Odds
• Living with likelihood
• Being contrary
• Attempting some probability questions
• Running Experiments
• Finding a probability
• Attempting some experiments questions
• Combining Events
• Both or all events
• Either or both events
• Attempting some combining events questions
• Working through Review Questions
• Checking Your Answers
• Probability questions
• Experiment questions
• Combining events questions
• Review questions
• Part V: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 19: Ten (Or So) Ways to Check Your Work
• Making Sense
• Eliminating Wrong Answers
• Working Backwards
• Re-reading the Question
• Using the Information
• Rounding Roughly
• Trying Another Way
• Using Your Common Sense
• Taking Your Time
• Drawing a (Big!) Picture
• Checking Your Units
• Chapter 20: Ten Tips for Remembering Your Number Facts
• Playing Games
• Flashing Cards
• Sticking Stickies
• Counting on Your Fingers
• Tricking out the Nines
• Tricking Out Other Big Numbers
• Tricks of six
• Straight to eight
• What about seven?
• Five alive
• Breaking Down and Building Up
• Figuring out eight
• Surprised by six
• Nailing nine
• Finally fives
• Working from What You Know
• Powering through the Slumps
• Learning from Your Mistakes
• Chapter 21: Ten Top Tips for Getting Things Right
• Keeping in Practice
• Working on the Easy Stuff
• Working on the Hard Stuff
• Laying It Out Neatly
• Keeping Your Ideas Straight
• Making a Plan
• Treating Yourself Well
• Sitting Up Straight
• Breathing Like a Rock Star
• Talking Yourself Up
• Index
• Notes
• Advert