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By Paul Carson, 806 pages, published Sep 8, 2015.
Amazon's Description:
For you, maths is a painful thing that you're forced to do but really hate. You want to get a good grade, but find that you can do okay in class, but struggle in the exam. To solve this problem, I've created 'Math-Hacker', a guide through the seeming wilderness of mysterious letters and strange word problems. My course has a 95% success rate, and my other books have great reviews. The culmination of 15 years' research and experience, this is a holistic guide to maths where you have to know much fewer methods, but in no time you'll be the best student in your class. Completely painlessly and effortlessly.
You'll learn to:
Multiply numbers with ease
Do questions like 2.1 x 1.4 in a few seconds
Find percentages such as 41% of 32 in seconds
Do percentages in your head
Square numbers in your head
Smash the rules of indices
Manipulate standard form with ease
Finally understand why on earth you do algebra
No more troubles with trigonometry
Learn how to become rich (yes, really!)
Learn about the traps of personal finance and how to avoid them
Really understand areas
Rearrange formulae using BIDMAS
Seem like a magician with advanced mental arithmetic techniques
Finally understand what sin, cos and tan, are and how to do them
Carry all this forward to higher levels of maths
This book will give you the correct and useful tools for maths and everyday life that you can actually USE and find easy. This is the key that will unlock your maths problems and will let you find maths to be exciting and satisfying to do, as well as rewarding for its own sake.
This book promises that you will:
Go from Zero to Hero!
Smash Exams!
Get Your Self-Respect Back!
Amaze Your Teachers With Your Skills!
Allow You To Help Others!
Enjoy.
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I thought it was BODMAS
Cool. My maths superpower would be to be able to divide by zero.