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Coming Home to Math: Become Comfortable With the Numbers That Rule Your Life - Thryft
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Discover the joy of math in everyday life.

This book could be a good read for someone who has always felt intimidated by math but wants to become more comfortable with numbers. Through simple explanations and relatable examples, it shows how math plays a role in personal finances, health, and popular culture. Even if you're not looking to become a math expert, this book can help you appreciate the practical applications of math and gain confidence in your numerical thinking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9789811209840
Related Collections: Personal Development, Science
Related Topics: Education, Mathematics, Personal Development

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We live in a world of numbers and mathematics, and so we need to work with numbers and some math in almost everything we do, to control our happiness and the direction of our lives. The purpose of Coming Home to Math is to make adults with little technical training more comfortable with math, in using it and enjoying it, and to allay their fears of math, enable their numerical thinking, and convince them that math is fun. A range of important math concepts are presented and explained in simple terms, mostly by using arithmetic, with frequent connections to the real world of personal financial matters, health, gambling, and popular culture.As such, Coming Home to Math is geared to making the general, non-specialist, adult public more comfortable with math, though not to formally train them for new careers or to teach those first learning math. It may also be helpful to liberal arts college students who need to tackle more technical subjects. The range of topics covered may also appeal to scholars who are more math savvy, though it may not challenge them. The general, non-specialist, adult public, liberal arts students in colleges who want to transition to more technical subjects.


Author: Irving P Herman
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication Date: 2019
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Discover the joy of math in everyday life.

This book could be a good read for someone who has always felt intimidated by math but wants to become more comfortable with numbers. Through simple explanations and relatable examples, it shows how math plays a role in personal finances, health, and popular culture. Even if you're not looking to become a math expert, this book can help you appreciate the practical applications of math and gain confidence in your numerical thinking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.