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WHAT'S INSIDE? Acknowledgments Math Used to Totally Suck FAQs: How To Use This Book PART I: FACTORS AND MULTIPLES DON'T SUCK Chapter 1: How to Make a Killing on Ebay Prime Numbers and Prime Factorization Chapter 2: Do You Still Have a Crush on Him? ON THE COVER! Finding the GCF - The Greatest Common Factor Chapter 3: You Can Never Have Too Many Shoes Multiples and LCM "Lowest Common Multiple" Quiz #1: Are You a Math-o-Phobe? ON THE COVER! PART II: FRACTIONS DON'T SUCK Chapter 4: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Pizza But Were Afraid to Ask Introduction to Fractions and Mixed Numbers Chapter 5: How Many Iced Lattes Can These Actors Drink? Multiplying and Dividing Fractions... and Reciprocals Chapter 6: When to Seriously Stop Raiding the Refrigerator Equivalent fractions and Reducing Chapter 7: Is Your Sister Trying to Cheat You Out of Your Fair Share? Comparing Fractions Chapter 8: How Much Do You and Your Best Friend Have in Common? Common Denominators...and Adding and Subtracting Fractions Chapter 9: Choosing the Perfect Necklace Complex Fractions Quiz #2: What's Your Learning Style? PART III: DECIMALS DON'T SUCK Chapter 10: What Every Savvy Shopper Should Know All About Decimals Chapter 11: Why Calculators would make Terrible Boyfriends Converting Fractions and Mixed Numbers --> Decimals Chapter 12: How to Entertain Yourself While Babysitting a Devil Child Converting Decimals Fractions What's Your Math Horoscope? See what the stars say about you and math! ON THE COVER! PART IV: PERCENTS JOIN THE PARTY...AND THEY DON'T SUCK, EITHER Chapter 13: Sale of the Century! Converting Percents to and from Decimals and Fractions Chapter 14: A Choreographed Performance Mixing Fractions, Decimals and Percents Together PART V: WORD PROBLEMS DON'T SUCK Chapter 15: The Universal Language of Love...and Math Intro to Word Problems, and "Percent of" and "Percent Off" Chapter 16: Doesn't She Ever Get Off the Phone? Ratios Chapter 17: The Perks of a Southern Drawl Rates and Unit Rates Chapter 18: Filmmaker Extraordinaire! Proportions Chapter 19: Are You Drinking Enough Water? Unit Conversions Quiz #3: Do You Have Trouble FOCUSING-Or Are You a Focus Superstar? PART VI: EVEN ALGEBRA DOESN'T SUCK Chapter 20: Who's the Cute New Foreign Exchange Student? Intro to "Solving for x" Chapter 21: Romeo and Juliet Intro to "Solving for x in Word Problems" Troubleshooting Guide: Where to Turn When You Don't Know What to Do! Multiplication Table Long Division Review Answer Key Math Resource Guide
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Middle school) -- United States.