Arithmetic the easy way.

Title:

Author:

Williams, Edward, 1926-

ISBN:

9780764129131

Edition:

4th ed. / Edward Williams, Katie Prindle ; edited by Eugene J. Farley.

Publication Information:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's, c2006.

Physical Description:

xii, 458 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Series:

Easy way.

General Note:

Includes index.

Subject Term:

Arithmetic -- Problems, exercises, etc.

Added Author:

Prindle, Katie.

Farley, Eugene J.

Summary:

Everybody uses arithmetic on virtually a daily basis, and this book serves as a brush-up for general readers while it also helps students master basic skills that they need before moving up to high-school-level math and beyond. It reviews addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, then moves on to calculating with fractions, decimals, and percentages. A concluding chapter reviews units of measurement and word problems. Chapters are filled with short practice exercises, all of which are answered at the back of the book. Features many tables, charts, and line illustrations.--From publisher description.

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Everybody uses arithmetic on virtually a daily basis, and this book serves as a handy brush-up for general readers while it also helps students master basic skills that they need before moving up to high-school-level math and beyond. It reviews addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, then moves on to calculating with fractions, decimals, and percentages. A concluding chapter reviews units of measurement and word problems. Chapters are filled with short practice exercises, all of which are answered at the back of the book. The book features many tables, charts, and line illustrations. Barron's Easy Way books introduce a variety of academic and practical subjects to students and general readers in clear, understandable language. Ideal as self-teaching manuals for readers interested in learning a new career-related skill, these books have also found widespread classroom use as supplementary texts and brush-up test-preparation guides. Subject heads and key phrases that need to be learned are set in a second color.

Preface	p. viii
Introduction	p. ix
Reference Tables	p. xii
Chapter 1 We Can Work Together	p. 1
Pretest 1	p. 2
1.1 Number Symbols We Use	p. 4
1.2 Counting and Tallying	p. 4
1.3 One-Digit, Two-Digit, and Larger Numbers	p. 5
1.4 Each Place Has a Value	p. 6
1.5 Even Nothing Means Something	p. 9
1.6 Old Number Systems Still Influence Us	p. 10
Chapter Test 1	p. 14
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 1	p. 15
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 17
Chapter 2 It All Adds Up!	p. 19
Pretest 2A	p. 19
2.1 Whole Numbers	p. 21
2.2 The Language of Addition	p. 21
2.3 Help from the Number Line	p. 25
2.4 Nothing Is Still Important	p. 29
2.5 Unequal Place Addition	p. 30
2.6 No Addition Problem Is Long	p. 31
2.7 Word Problems	p. 32
Chapter Test 2A	p. 34
Answers to Chapter Test 2A	p. 35
Answers to Pretest 2A and Practice Exercises	p. 36
Pretest 2B	p. 38
2.8 Every Number Has Its Place	p. 40
2.9 Place Value and Column Addition	p. 41
2.10 Longer Columns of Numbers	p. 46
2.11 When the Columns Are Broken	p. 47
2.12 Know the Combinations	p. 49
2.13 More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Addition	p. 52
2.14 More Problems with Addition	p. 54
Chapter Test 2B	p. 57
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 2B	p. 58
Answers to Pretest 2B and Practice Exercises	p. 60
Chapter 3 Take It Away! Subtraction	p. 63
Pretest 3	p. 63
3.1 What Happens in Subtraction?	p. 65
3.2 The Language of Subtraction	p. 66
3.3 Help from the Number Line	p. 71
3.4 Unequal Place Subtraction	p. 72
3.5 Word Problems	p. 73
3.6 Subtraction by Addition	p. 74
3.7 Numbers Can Be Exchanged	p. 76
3.8 Exchanging in Subtraction	p. 78
3.9 More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Subtraction	p. 83
Chapter Test 3	p. 85
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 3	p. 86
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 89
Chapter 4 Remember Those Times? Multiplication	p. 93
Pretest 4	p. 93
4.1 Multiplication Is Repeated Addition	p. 95
4.2 Help from the Number Line	p. 97
4.3 Multiplying Whole Numbers	p. 100
4.4 Those Old Combinations Again	p. 102
4.5 Multiplying by a One-Digit Number	p. 104
4.6 Word Problems	p. 109
4.7 Multiplying by a Number Having Two or More Digits	p. 110
4.8 Multiplication Applied to Measuring	p. 114
4.9 More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Multiplication	p. 119
Chapter Test 4	p. 121
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 4	p. 122
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 125
Chapter 5 Let's Divide It Up!	p. 131
Pretest 5	p. 131
5.1 What Is Division?	p. 133
5.2 The Language of Division	p. 134
5.3 You Still Need Those Combinations	p. 135
5.4 Help from the Number Line	p. 137
5.5 Dividing by a One-Digit Number	p. 139
5.6 When the Quotient Contains Fewer Places Than the Dividend	p. 142
5.7 Zero as a Place Holder	p. 143
5.8 Dividing and Leaving a Remainder	p. 145
5.9 Carrying Remainders	p. 146
5.10 Word Problems Requiring Division	p. 149
5.11 Dividing by More Than a One-Digit Number	p. 150
5.12 More Difficult Word Problems Requiring Division	p. 155
5.13 Mean, Median, and Mode	p. 156
5.14 Division Applied to Area Measurement	p. 158
Chapter Test 5	p. 158
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 5	p. 159
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 163
Chapter 6 The Important Parts-Fractions	p. 169
Pretest 6	p. 169
6.1 What Is a Fraction?	p. 172
6.2 The Language of a Fraction	p. 175
6.3 What Kinds of Fractions Are There?	p. 176
6.4 Simplifying Fractions	p. 178
6.5 Equivalent Fractions	p. 182
6.6 Which Fraction Is Larger or Smaller?	p. 185
6.7 Changing Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers	p. 189
6.8 Changing Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions	p. 192
Chapter Test 6	p. 195
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 6	p. 197
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 198
Chapter 7 Piece by Piece-Adding Fractions	p. 201
Pretest 7	p. 201
7.1 Fractions Can Be Added	p. 204
7.2 After Adding, What Next?	p. 206
7.3 Fractions Whose Sum Is One	p. 207
7.4 Fractions Whose Sum Is Greater Than One	p. 208
7.5 Mixed Numbers Can Also Be Added	p. 210
7.6 Mixed Numbers Whose Sum May Be Simplified	p. 211
7.7 Mixed Numbers Whose Fractional Parts Add Up to One	p. 212
7.8 Mixed Numbers with Fractional Parts Whose Sum Is Greater Than One	p. 214
7.9 Word Problems	p. 215
7.10 What About Those Denominators?	p. 217
7.11 Mixing Them All Up	p. 219
7.12 More Difficult Word Problems	p. 222
Chapter Test 7	p. 224
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 7	p. 225
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 228
Chapter 8 Subtracting Fractions	p. 235
Pretest 8	p. 235
8.1 Subtracting Fractions	p. 237
8.2 After Subtracting, What Next?	p. 240
8.3 Like Fractions Whose Difference Is One or Greater Than One	p. 241
8.4 Mixed Numbers Can Also Be Subtracted	p. 242
8.5 Exchanging in Subtracting Fractions	p. 244
8.6 Exchanging in Subtracting Mixed Numbers (Like Denominators)	p. 246
8.7 Word Problems	p. 248
8.8 Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators	p. 249
8.9 Subtracting Mixed Numbers	p. 252
8.10 Exchanging in Subtracting Mixed Numbers (Unlike Denominators)	p. 253
8.11 More Difficult Word Problems	p. 256
Chapter Test 8	p. 258
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 8	p. 259
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 261
Chapter 9 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions	p. 269
Pretest 9A	p. 269
9.1 The Product of Two Fractions	p. 271
9.2 Cancellation	p. 272
9.3 Finding Parts of Whole Numbers	p. 274
9.4 Multiplying Three or More Fractions	p. 276
9.5 Multiplying Mixed Numbers	p. 277
9.6 Word Problems	p. 279
Chapter Test 9A	p. 283
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 9A	p. 284
Answers to Pretest 9A and Practice Exercises	p. 285
Pretest 9B	p. 288
9.7 The Quotient of Two Fractions	p. 290
9.8 Dividing Mixed Numbers	p. 293
9.9 Word Problems	p. 296
Chapter Test 9B	p. 298
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 9B	p. 299
Answers to Pretest 9B and Practice Exercises	p. 301
Chapter 10 What's the Point? Decimals	p. 305
Pretest 10	p. 305
10.1 Introducing Decimals	p. 308
10.2 Reading and Writing Decimals	p. 312
10.3 Which Fraction Equals Which Decimal?	p. 314
10.4 Comparing Decimals	p. 315
10.5 Rounding Off Decimals	p. 318
Chapter Test 10	p. 321
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 10	p. 322
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 323
Chapter 11 Adding and Subtracting Decimals	p. 327
Pretest 11A	p. 327
11.1 Adding Decimals	p. 329
11.2 Adding Mixed Decimals	p. 332
11.3 Word Problems Requiring the Addition of Decimals	p. 334
Chapter Test 11A	p. 337
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 11A	p. 338
Answers to Pretest 11A and Practice Exercises	p. 339
Pretest 11B	p. 341
11.4 Subtracting Decimals	p. 343
11.5 Subtracting Mixed Decimals	p. 345
11.6 Word Problems Requiring the Subtraction of Decimals	p. 348
Chapter Test 11B	p. 350
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 11B	p. 351
Answers to Pretest 11B and Practice Exercises	p. 353
Chapter 12 Multiplying Decimals	p. 355
Pretest 12	p. 355
12.1 Multiplying a Decimal by a Whole Number	p. 357
12.2 Multiplying Decimal Numbers	p. 359
12.3 Special Multipliers of 10, 100, 1,000, and so on	p. 362
12.4 Word Problems Requiring the Multiplication of Decimals	p. 364
Chapter Test 12	p. 366
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 12	p. 367
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 368
Chapter 13 Dividing Decimals	p. 371
Pretest 13	p. 371
13.1 Dividing a Decimal by a Whole Number	p. 373
13.2 Zero As a Place Holder in the Quotient	p. 375
13.3 Changing a Fraction into a Decimal	p. 377
13.4 Dividing a Decimal by a Decimal	p. 380
13.5 Zero As a Place Holder in the Dividend	p. 382
13.6 Word Problems Requiring the Division of Decimals	p. 384
13.7 Special Divisors of 10, 100, 1,000, and so on	p. 386
13.8 Changing a Decimal into a Fraction	p. 387
13.9 Rewriting Decimals with Fractions	p. 391
13.10 Word Problems Combining Fractions and Decimals	p. 392
Chapter Test 13	p. 396
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 13	p. 398
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 400
Chapter 14 Percents	p. 405
Pretest 14	p. 405
14.1 Meaning of Percent	p. 407
14.2 Changing Percents to Decimals	p. 410
14.3 Changing Decimals to Percents	p. 412
14.4 Changing Percents to Fractions	p. 414
14.5 Changing Fractions to Percents	p. 415
14.6 Finding a Percent of a Number	p. 418
14.7 Finding the Percent That One Number Is of Another	p. 421
14.8 Finding a Number When a Percent of It is Known	p. 425
Chapter Test 14	p. 429
Answers and Explanations to Chapter Test 14	p. 430
Answers to Pretest and Practice Exercises	p. 432
Chapter 15 Measurement	p. 435
Pretest 15	p. 435
15.1 Units of Measurement	p. 437
15.2 Adding Measures	p. 438
15.3 Subtracting Measures	p. 439
15.4 Multiplying Measures	p. 441
15.5 Dividing Measures	p. 443
15.6 Word Problems Requiring Measures	p. 444
15.7 Converting Metric Measures	p. 445
Chapter Test 15	p. 448

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