Math Basics Made Easy

✍ Scribed by Crisonino, Ginny

• Book ID: 108945884
• Publisher: Singing Turtle Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780984638109

✦ Synopsis

There's an unspoken weak spot in our society ... most adults can't do basic math.

A recent U.S. Department of Education study found that American adults are largely unable to calculate tips, understand their mortgage payments, or even figure out their weekly salary when told their hourly wage.

Though we live in a world where numbers, percentages and statistics are tossed at us daily -- a world that expects us to make sense of these figures -- 87% of American adults are deemed "non-proficient" at math, according to a recent Education Department study.

But there is hope. As the scope of this problem has become more publicized, community colleges have moved in to help, offering courses to help adults gain math proficiency. And programs and books have been created to address the issue, too.

Still, most adults need to start their math journey is back at the beginning, and few resources have been developed to address the earliest math skills.

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