Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 513.26 EAN: 9780764134395 ISBN: 0764134396 Label: Barron's Educational Series Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: August 01, 2006 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Reading Level: Young Adult Sales Rank: 69048 Studio: Barron's Educational Series
Product DescriptionTaking a light-hearted approach to numbers and their parts, the author, shows how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions, demonstrates how to convert them into decimals and percentages, and presents puzzles and “brain ticklers” that students will enjoy solving.
Barron’s popular Painless Series of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve “Brain Tickler” problems with answers at the end of each chapter.
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Rating: - Fantastic Fractions!!!
Absolutely the best math guide I have ever purchased. I have always been awful at math. I had countless tutors growing up and stayed in pre-algebra most of high school and remedial math in college. I wanted to re-learn fractions and algebra since I would be returning to school and would have to test for placement in mathematics. I took me 4 days to finish the book (about 2 1/2 hrs. a day) and for the very first time in my life I actually understand fractions! I went on to buy Painless Algebra (Barron's ... Read More
Rating: - terrible book for teaching
This book was horrible. I couldn't really understand it and it was very wordy and little work problems. Don't waste your money.
Rating: - Practices Come Before Explanations!
It might be more effective to tackle questions than to read explanations for Jr. high and elder students. They have already learned how to solve them at school. Skimming through this item, I believe most exercises are quite easy. In other words, it is a waste of time to read every explanation to the end. Besides, it tires your mind. Of course, you may have to read the explanation carefully if you get stuck in tricky or difficult questions, though. Actually, I'm not very good at math, but I feel like Painless ... Read More
Rating: - Not as good as "Painless Algebra" but
still tons better than your average, run-of-the-mill, text book book! I was so looking forward to this book after buying Painless Algebra (which I gave five stars...that's a TERRIFIC book!)thinking it would be just as good. With "...Algebra" I was able to read and understand what they were talking about once or twice and do the exercises/brain ticklers fairly easily. With this book, I find myself having to go back, several times, to grasp what they are saying in order to complete them. Again..much, much better ... Read More
Rating: - not painless
Other than drawing a couple of cartoon characters, there was nothing that made this painless. i was looking for a book that would help older kids get over their aversion to fractions. this was not it.
- Fantastic Fractions!!!
- terrible book for teaching
- not painless
