Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Math Review and Workbook,

✍ Scribed by Carolyn Wheater

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The ideal study guide for success in Basic Math―updated with the latest strategies and hundreds of practice questions

Practice makes perfect―and this study guide gives you all the practice you need to gain mastery in Basic Math. Whether you’re a high school or college student, or a self-studying adult, the hundreds of exercises in Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Math Review and Workbook, Third Edition will help you become comfortable, and ultimately gain confidence with the material.

This updated edition features the latest strategies and lesson instruction in an accessible format, with thorough review followed immediately by a variety of practice questions. Covering all the essential basic math topics, this book will give you everything you need to help with your schoolwork, exams, and everyday life!

Features:

• Hundreds of updated practice questions, including the latest question types
• Updated lesson instruction and the latest math strategies
• An easy-to-use format, with concise lessons followed by lots of practice
• Covers all of the most important Basic Math concepts and acts as an introduction to the different branches of math
• Topics include arithmetic, multiplication, division, basic geometry and algebra, negative numbers, square roots, working with fractions, lessons on transformations and an expanded look at fractions and decimals
• An answer key to help check your work

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1 Numbers and arithmetic
The families of numbers
Vocabulary and symbols
Calculation
Order of operations
Calculations with integers
Absolute value
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication and division
Powers
2 Factors and primes
Prime or composite
Dividing and multiplying
Prime factorization
Greatest common factor
Least common multiple
3 Fractions
Simplifying fractions
Multiplying fractions
Dividing fractions
Adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators
Adding and subtracting with different denominators
Mixed numbers and improper fractions
Multiplying and dividing mixed numbers
Adding and subtracting mixed numbers
4 Decimals
Place value
Decimal fractions
Fraction to decimal
Decimal to fraction
Rounding and estimation
Adding and subtracting
Multiplying
Dividing
Quick tricks
5 Ratios, proportions, and percents
Ratio and proportion
Properties of proportions
Finding the missing piece
Percent
6 Equations and inequalities
Solving simple equations
Terms and expressions
Simplify before solving
Solving inequalities
7 Exponents and roots
Evaluating
Multiplying
Dividing
Powers of powers
Powers of products and quotients
Special exponents
Large and small
Scientific notation
Roots
8 Quadratic equations
Multiplying
Solving quadratic equations
Square roots
Factoring
Factoring ax2 + bx
Factoring x2 + bx + c
Solving by factoring
Quadratic formula
9 Basic geometry
Segments, midpoints, and bisectors
Angles and bisectors
Angle relationships
10 Polygons
Triangles
Quadrilaterals
Other polygons
11 Perimeter and area
Parallelograms
Rectangles and squares
Trapezoids
Triangles
Regular polygons
12 Transformations
Reflections
Translations
Rotations
Dilations
13 Circles
Lines and segments in circles
Angles and arcs
Lengths of segments
Circumference and area
14 Volume and surface area
Volumes of prisms
Volumes of cylinders
Volumes of pyramids
Volumes of cones
Volumes of spheres
Surface area
15 Coordinate geometry
Distance
Midpoint
Slope
Equation of a line
Graphing linear equations
Graphs of quadratic equations
Finding axis of symmetry and vertex
16 Counting and probability
Getting a count
Factorials and permutations
Combinations
Dealing with duplication
Probability
17 Statistics
Types of graphs
Types of data
Grouped data
Measures of spread
Expressing relationships
Answer key