Synopsis"This book covers beginning mathematics including: the big question in arithmetic, multiplying two-digit numbers, a pound of hamburger weighs more than a pound of gold, the last ten multiplication facts, how to remember 7x8=56, sigma notation, subtracting 12 oz. from 15 lbs., bar graph, ordered pairs, elapsed time, first and second coordinates, why algebra does not use the times sign (x), the cardinality of the set of all ice cream flavors that begin with the letter alpha, minutes and hours in the metric system, plotting points on a graph, perimeter, the one reason for mathematics, hooke's law, slope of a line, estimating using graphs, changing the scale on a graph, counting back change, the commutativity of set union, less than and greater than, area of a rectangle."-- Publisher's website