Don’t Just Learn Decimals and Percents ...Master Them!

Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and paper and pencil.

In Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents, you’ll learn how to read and write decimals, how to change decimals into fractions and percents, and much more. While you play exciting games like the fast-paced Dynamite Decimal Reduction and Here’s a Tip, you’ll also learn to estimate percentages in your head and even figure out what tip to leave at a restaurant. And with great games like Zeros Exchange, Multiplication War, and Math Review, you’ll practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing both decimals and percents–– and have fun while you’re doing it!

So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master! ...

Don't Just Learn Measurement…Master It!

Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and paper and pencil.

Inside Measurement Mania, you’ll learn to take the mystery out of mea-surement! Once you’ve mastered the basic forms of measurement––length, volume, weight, temperature, and time––you’ll learn how to measure the length of an ant in millimeters, the height of a telephone pole in feet, the volume of a bathtub in ounces, the weight of one spaghetti noodle in grams, and the temperature inside a refrigerator in Celsius.You’ll discover how to tell time with a candle, create optical illusions, and measure the tallest tree in your neighborhood without climbing an inch!

So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master! ...

Don’t Just Learn Multiplication...Master It! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, paper, and pencil. Inside Marvelous Multiplication, you will explore and solve the mysteries of multiplication. You’ll use ten tasty snacks to learn the one times table, get to know the ten times table using finger paints, and write a zany story using the multiples of a number to practice the multiplication tables. You’ll go on to learn even more about multiplication by deciphering the fascinating puzzles of prime factors, exponents, and three digit multiplication while playing games like Prime Solitaire, Three by Three, and Fingers!So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master! ...

The author demonstrates how solving geometric problems amounts to fitting parts together to solve interesting puzzles. Students discover relationships that exist between parallel and perpendicular lines; analyze the characteristics of distinct shapes such as circles, quadrilaterals, and triangles; and learn how geometric principles can solve real-world problems. Titles in Barron’s Painless Series are written especially for middle school and high school students who are having a difficult time with a specific subject. In many cases, a student is confused by the subject’s complexity and details. Still other students simply finds a subject uninteresting, an attitude that usually results in lower grades. Painless titles offer informal, student-friendly approaches to each subject, emphasizing interesting details, supplementing the text with amusing insights, and outlining potential pitfalls clearly and step by step. Students begin to understand how disparate details all fit together to form a clear picture. Timelines, ideas for interesting projects, and “Brain Tickler” quizzes in many of these titles help to take the pain out of study and improve each student’s grades....

Includes a paperback book and set of dominoes with instructions. Easy to store. Just put the book and game pieces back in the reusable pouches of the package when you're done! ...

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An off-the-chart book of graphing games and activities–even for kids who dislike math

Like the other books in Lynette Long’s Magical Math series, Great Graphs and Sensational Statistics helps make basic math interesting. Children will learn graphing and statistics techniques through dozens of easy activities and lively illustrations. They will find out how to make pictographs, pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, and much more. All activities are appropriate to the learning level and can be done at home or in the classroom with easy-to-find materials, such as playing cards, dice, and paper and pencil.

Lynette Long, PhD (Washington, DC) is the author of several children’s math books, including Marvelous Multiplication (0-471-36982-9), Dazzling Division (0-471-36983-7), Fabulous Fractions (0471369810), and Measurement Mania (0-471-36980-2)....

For students who break out in a cold sweat at the mention of any math subject, Painless Algebra is a way to relax and learn without pain. The author's approach eliminates confusion by taking math details one at a time and transforming algebra into a subject everybody can master--and even enjoy! Painless Algebra is an ideal self-teaching text for middle-school students who need more help than they're getting in the classroom. It also makes fine preparation for those taking SAT, ACT and other tests where questions include math problems. A user-friendly introductory chapter gives meanings in simple English for algebraic terms, instructs on the correct order of operations when solving a problem, and outlines numbers properties and systems. Following chapters cover integers, equations with one variable, inequalities, systems of equations, exponents, roots and radicals, and quadratic equations. Each chapter contains fun-to-solve "brain tickler" problems, with answers....