Maths with a heart–Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies

"I humbly ask you to put aside any doubts. Remember, just for a moment, an innocent time – a time before math-inspired panic attacks or, at best, induced irresistible drowsiness. In this book, I take you from an 'understanding' of the basics to the place where you're ready to enter any algebra class and succeed." An excerpt from the introduction of this book that is heartfelt and does as it promises.

Whenever it comes to tutoring young students who are confounded by basic maths higher maths like algebra the teacher also equally gets confounded. I find maths fun because the questions are basically puzzles, and for me algebra where words can represent numbers is not a difficult concept. But when I started teaching students from different levels of basic understanding of maths, I find many of them have difficulty in algebra simply because there are word and numbers. The equations look so strange from an all numbers based equation that many students simply get put off. In my search for a solution on helping students overcome this hurdle I found the explanations in Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies a blessing (though I am not a dummy). If you are trying to teach someone algebra you won't find a better and more fun guide than its step by step chapters which are on Part V of the book.

The book also has other chapters that deal with all of basic maths from Number Operations to Decimals to Statistics. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a handle on maths be you a student, teacher or parent. The goal of the book is to bring the fun back in maths that usually gets lost after sometime usually because it just got too tough to be taught right. Mark Zegarelli who is a math test prep teacher had done many of us teachers and students a big favour by writing this book.