Math does not need to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to being a confident mathematician. This book includes: simple step-by-step explanations, to help you grasp new topics or those that have previously confused you; practice questions throughout, to help you embed your learning and improve your confidence; and end of chapter summaries, to help you remember the key points you’ve learned–all in one great-value book, so you don’t need any separate workbooks or course books.
Chapters include: number, angles, fractions, two-dimensional shapes, decimals, statistics, directed numbers, graphs, measurement, perimeter and area, algebraic, three-dimensional shapes, ratio and proportion, pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry, indices and standard form.
I'm mostly reading through it to remind myself of things that have become a bit hazy over the years. Mathematics is not part of my daily life, so the knowledge will never stick well, it'll fade away again. But I'm happy to have an easy way to remind myself what maths is about.
If you're looking for a broad introduction to basic maths, I certainly recommend this book.
I don't recommend the Kindle version as some of it was more or less illegible on my ancient Kindle.
By the way, it has a pretty good index.
Your learning is enhanced by worked examples then lots and lots of exercises and these re-inforce your knowledge.
The chapters are bite-sized and this allowed me to do around a chapter a day on my train commute. In fact I looked forward to my commute for a change.
Going through the book gave me the confidence to buy a book on Calculus, but I am finding that I need to go back and increase my knowledge in Algebra and Trigonometry to get through certain chapters of the Calculus book - for example trigonometry identities are not covered. But crucially, going through this book has given me the confidence to carry on. And in this latter respect this book is a marvel and has accomplished what no other book on maths has allowed me to do so far. I will be forever grateful to its brilliant authors.
Thank you.