The Human Face of Decimals and Percents

You know your addition and multiplication tables by heart.

You have read Life of Fred: Fractions

Now the gateway to algebra—Life of Fred: Decimals and Percents

One afternoon and evening with our five-year-old hero and you will learn:

• Everything you need to begin algebra
• Why they no longer play football at KITTENS University
• Why you should never eat alone at the 5100th Avenue Steak House

Number Systems, Adding and Subtracting Decimals, Multiplying by Ten, Functions and Inverse Functions, Pi, Multiplying Decimals, Whole Numbers, Squaring a Number, Subtracting Mixed Units, Sets and Subsets, Union and Intersection of Sets, Rules of Divisibility, Division of Decimals, Repeating Decimals, Bar Graphs, Prime and Composite Numbers, Consecutive Numbers, the Goldbach Conjecture, Area of a Circle, Dollars vs. Cents, Pie Charts, Conversion between Percents/ Fractions/ Decimals, 40% of 15, 30% off, Distance Equals Rate Times Time, 15% more, Area of a Triangle, Square Roots, Area of a Parallelogram, 13 Is What Percent of 52, Ratio, Ordered Pairs, Graphing, Negative Numbers, Elapsed Time, Probability.

ISBN: 978-0-9791072-0-7, hardback, 192 pages.

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