Math For Real Life For Dummies® -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- What You're Not to Read -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Boning Up on Math Basics -- Chapter 1: Awesome Operations: Math Fundamentals -- Numbers You Can Count On -- Reviewing the Four Basic Operations -- Finagling Fractions -- Processing Percentages -- Grasping Charts and Graphs -- Working Wicked Word Problems -- Chapter 2: High School Reunion: Revisiting Key Principles of Algebra and Geometry -- "A" Stands for "Algebra" and "Awesome" -- Jousting with Geometry: Simple Rules about Shape and Size -- Chapter 3: Becoming a Believer: Conversion, Statistics, Probability, and More -- Wrangling Ratio-Proportion: The Best Calculation Method -- Doing Conversions: Lots of Pleasure and Hardly Any Pain -- Mastering Simple Statistics -- Predicting the Probable -- Chapter 4: The Miracle of Mental Math -- Mental Math Basics -- Adding and Subtracting on the Fly -- Making Hay of Multiplication and Division -- Estimating with Ease -- Doing Simple Cerebral Statistics -- Part II: Math for Everyday Activities -- Chapter 5: Let's Make a Deal! Math You Use When Shopping -- Determining Actual Cost -- Making Tradeoffs: A Fun Balancing Act -- Buying in Quantity: A Good Deal? -- Knowing the Real Cost of Sale Items -- How Do You Wanna Pay for That? -- Discovering Deals at the Grocery -- Determining Where to Shop -- Chapter 6: Mmm, Mmm, Good: Kitchen Calculations -- Taking Measure -- Scaling a Recipe -- Using Math to Buy and Cook Smart -- Chapter 7: It Does a Body Good: Math for Health and Well-Being -- Figuring Your Nutritional Needs -- Calculating Calories -- Exercise Math -- Being the Doctor at Home -- Chapter 8: Putting Geometry to Work at Home.

Calculating Your Way to a Better Lawn and Garden -- Fixing Up the Place -- Chapter 9: Math and Statistics around Town and on the Road -- Automobile Arithmetic: Figuring Costs, Mileage, and More -- Dining Out -- Taking a Vacation: To Drive or to Fly? -- Gambling: Money You Take to Las Vegas Stays in Las Vegas -- Part III: Math to Manage Your Personal Finances -- Chapter 10: Budgets, Bank Accounts, Credit Cards, and More -- Beginning with a Budget -- Balancing Your Checkbook -- Homing in on Mortgage Math -- Using Smart Math for Other Big Purchases -- Calculating How to Avoid or Get Out of a Credit Card Hole -- Selecting Savings Accounts -- Chapter 11: Key Principles of Investment Math -- Factoring Personal Info into Investment Decisions -- Playing with Instruments: Not the Musical Kind -- Growing the Green Stuff: The Time Value of Money -- Rounding Up Retirement Plans -- Managing Mutual Funds -- Considering Common Stocks -- Investing in Bonds -- Chapter 12: Covering Your Assets: Insurance Math -- Honing in on How Insurance Works -- Making Calculations about Your Own Lines of Insurance -- Chapter 13: Taking Math to Work -- Setting Prices -- Paying Attention to Profit -- Making Change -- Tracking Your Time -- Parsing Your Paycheck -- Chapter 14: How Taxing! (Almost) Understanding the Government -- Illuminating Income Taxes -- Observing Other Taxes -- Part IV: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 15: Ten Quick Calculations You Can Do in Your Head -- Miles to Kilometers -- Miles to Your Destination -- Time to Destination -- Sales Tax and VAT -- Tips -- How Much Paint to Buy -- Number of Pizzas to Buy -- Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) -- Dollars to Pounds or Euros -- Gas Mileage -- Chapter 16: Ten Activities That Build Math Skills -- Playing Sudoku -- Playing Elementary Math Games on the Internet -- Working through Logic Puzzles -- Noting the Birthday Paradox.

Knowing the Value of Pi -- Guessing a Friend's Age -- Playing Hidden Object Games -- Flipping Coins -- Playing Games with Your Kids -- Playing Angry Birds -- Index.