Use Your Fingers, Use Your Toes

"Use Your Fingers, Use Your Toes" offers relief to millions of math-phobes who, while generally bright and educated, panic when faced with an everyday math problem. Included are common, but puzzling problems such as adjusting recipes, calculating calorie counts and fat grams, measuring for new carpets, drapes and wallpaper, figuring percentage discounts, mortgage interest, taxes, sports statistics, miles per gallon, and, of course, tipping. The book moves at the pace of today??"s busy lifestyle. By reading through the clear step-by-step solution to a given problem, the reader can solve the problem in as little as five minutes. Other books concentrate on reteaching math this book concentrates on offering quick, accessible, example-oriented solutions for today??"s busy lifestyles.