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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.
Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends?and yourself?with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned ?mathemagician? Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and?maybe for the first time?make mathematics fun.
Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You?ll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. No matter what your age or current math ability, Secrets of Mental Math will allow you to perform fantastic feats of the mind effortlessly. This is the math they never taught you in school.
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- Posted: Sep-25-2009
Fun book, even for a 9 year old
This book was a pleasant surprise. I was able to pick up several "tricks" that make complex calculation quicker and easier to perform mentally. Definitely useful for day to day situations. My 9 year old was also able to learn some of the techniques shown.
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- Posted: Sep-21-2009
Practical and life changing
This book is very near and dear to my heart. I have always been horrible at anything having to do with numbers and numerical concepts. I was, in short, innumerate. I decided to do something about it and I felt that playing with numbers would be a way to better familiarize myself with their...
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- Posted: Sep-04-2009
A hoot
I found it very enjoyable and effective to go thru the exercises. The author has a way of describing the tricks that makes you want to apply them and have a great idea how to do so -- and it works.Some of the chapters seemed superfluous, not really focused on the math stuff. I could have used...
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- Posted: Aug-07-2009
Only three or four chapters worth reading
This book teaches you a few principles to do arithmetics in your head but they are contained in the first two chapters on addition/subtraction and multiplication. Most of the rest of the books are about the same principles but applying to bigger numbers (squaring three digits number, doing...
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- Posted: Jul-26-2009
Useful to speed up mathematics operations
With this book you will learn not only how to add up, subtract, multiply, divide and square 2 and 3-digit numbers just using your mind, but also how to perform simple tricks -- such as find out the day of the week you were born on.
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- Posted: Jul-17-2009
Great Book
My job revolves around math, I wish I knew this stuff in High School. Very well written and very interesting. 5 Stars!
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- Posted: Apr-28-2009
Perfect for What it Does
Secrets of Mental Math is in a league of its own. Its clear, succinct, and well paced. If you're familiar with the "For Dummies" series (like I am, I admit!), the book reads at about the same level.Its worth purchasing because the shortcuts aren't anywhere else on the Internet. (I think the...
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- Posted: Mar-24-2009
Simply amazing
First of all this book has really changed the way I see math and its everyday applications. Now then as for the book its self, its definitely a fantastic book to say the least. I think the composition of it is fair and its certainly an easy read, even though its a math book it contains some...
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- Posted: Mar-02-2009
Enjoyable, but you have to like math...
This is a great book if you have not found ways to perform calculations in your head. These tricks and techniques will give you the tools you will need, but it requires practice (read: homework) to make them stick, and to make them easier.However, if you ever find yourself without a calculator,...
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- Posted: Jan-07-2009
excellent... I never learned these things, and I wish I would have...
I am so happy this book is available, thank you, I am learning so much.
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