Math Tutoring - Free Guide on High-Speed Mathematics
Look at the business page of your newspaper. Look at the operating reports of your own company. Listen to the talk of business experts. Much of it is in numbers.
We Live With Numbers
No matter what kind of work we do, we are surrounded by numbers and the need to combine them to make new numbers.
From the salesman (price, quantity, discount) to the manager (selling expense, overhead, production cost) to the shop worker (inventory, tolerances, specifications) and even the creative advertising man (column inches, volume discount, page-cost per thousand), every job involves calculations.
Even off the job, we calculate. Check stubs—board feet of lumber for a project—timing of a roast—gas mileage—and that biggest number headache of all, income tax!
As we move up in business, our ability with numbers becomes even more important. It is safe to say that few people have ever become top executives without being able to handle calculations and estimates rapidly and fairly easily.
How much would you give for the ability to handle your problems in less time, with more ease, and with far more confidence?
Will your boss or customers appreciate you more?
Will you save valuable time?
Will your increased speed and confidence with figures qualify you that much more for promotion?
With this Success Kit, and a few minutes a day for the next few weeks, you can vastly improve your handling of every problem. And it's fun.
LEARNING THE BASIC FOUR
In well over 99% of our business and personal problems, we put numbers through only four basic processes. We add, we subtract, we multiply, and we divide.
An engineer may be concerned with powers and roots and logarithms, but most of us run across these so seldom that they really do not belong in a short-cut manual.
Most of us need better ways of doing the four basic calculations—and I think you will find them here.
Rather than explain the new methods quickly and go on to other problems such as fractions and percentages, this booklet will explain, demonstrate, and guide you step by step through the best and quickest way to handle every basic calculation. Some of these methods are quite new. All are tested and proven and remarkably fast.
First, you will learn how to develop a feeling for numbers. This is called "number sense." No matter how good or bad your number sense now is, you can improve it by following the easy rules.
Second, you will learn an extraordinary way to check problems that can save you about half the time you now spend. This trick alone is worth a fortune. After some practice, you will almost be able to tell simply by reading a problem whether the answer is right!
Third, you will discover a remarkable new way to add and subtract that is just twice as easy as the way taught in school.
Fourth, you will learn a fascinating new way to multiply without "carrying" that produces the answers from left to right—so you can stop as soon as you have the accuracy you need.
Fifth, you will learn to divide faster by combining the techniques above.
Sixth, you will learn to give rapid estimates and accurate guesses.
Seventh, you will discover a simple and pleasant way to increase your speed at the basic "grammar" of math—your ability to know without a second thought what 7 X 8 is or what 9 + 6 is — on the practice cards you can carry with you and play with at odd moments anytime.
Does this sound worth a few profitable hours?
Resolve now, though, to put some effort into those hours. Numbers, simply by their nature, are sometimes harder to understand quickly than many of the other skills covered by this program. Take this as a challenge; since most people don't take the trouble to become good with numbers, you can shine all the more by comparison.
DEVELOPING NUMBER SENSE
Almost all of us disliked arithmetic in school. Most of us still find it a chore.
There are two reasons for this. One is that we were usually taught the hardest, slowest way to do problems because it was the easiest way to teach. The other reason is that numbers seem so cold, so impersonal.
Unless we are simply practicing arithmetic, numbers are never really cold. They always have a very real, concrete meaning to us. We never deal with the number 6 all by itself. We mean 6 potatoes, or 6 dogs, or 6 dollars.
And even when we are practicing with numbers for their own sake, you can begin to "sense" what they mean if you stop to think about them for a moment.
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