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The Everyday Math Workout: Practice Problems That Actually Come Up in Life
Paperback
Series: Math Didn't Have to Be This Hard - Workbook, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 28 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.31 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Most math workbooks were written for someone else - a student in a classroom, working problems about trains and pools and abstract algebra. The Everyday Math Workout was written for you: an adult who wants the math you actually meet in real life - receipts, recipes, rent, tips, deals, and the numbers that decide whether you got a good price.
Every problem is drawn from a situation you've actually been in. Every answer is included. No textbook tone. No made-up scenarios. Just plain arithmetic you can trust, taught the way you'd actually use it.
What's inside - 7 chapters plus a closing capstone, 450+ practice problems, every answer worked:
- Percentages & Discounts - tips, sale prices, tax, and stacked discounts (20% off, then 10% more)
- Fractions in Everyday Life - recipe halving, measuring, and comparing sizes
- Mental Math Mastery - the shortcuts that let you check a bill or a total without a phone
- Ratios & Proportions - scaling recipes, mixing ratios, and comparing unit prices
- Algebra Thinking Without the Fear - one-step and two-step equations, taught with words first
- Measurement & Conversions - length, weight, volume, temperature, US ↔ metric
- Data & Everyday Numbers - mean, median, mode, and reading charts without being fooled
- The Day It All Comes Together - a closing capstone chapter that chains every skill into one running story, with a full walkthrough
Five ways to practise each idea: A Warm-Up gets you moving with one-step questions. Standard problems build the mechanic. Word problems put the mechanic into a real scenario. Mental-math challenges keep the shortcut sharp. Explain It prompts make sure you actually understand - not just memorise.
Nine free companion calculators - no sign-up, nothing to install. Every chapter is paired with a free online tool at the companion site: percent-of-a-number + tip, discount + sale-price, fraction operations, mental-math drill, ratio + proportion scaler, unit-price (which is cheaper?), one-step and two-step equation solver, unit conversions (length/weight/volume/temp), and mean/median/mode/range. Same math as the book - just faster when you're checking a bill on your phone. Plus a free printable one-page toolkit with every chapter's formulas, all on one sheet.
Written for anyone who thinks they can't do math. You can. You just were never shown how the everyday version works. If you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, you can do every problem in this book - and you'll finish more confident with the numbers than you've been since school.
This book was written in collaboration with AI tools. Every worked example, exercise answer, and formula was independently checked against an automated arithmetic harness before publication - so what you see on the page is the arithmetic the book actually teaches.
Expanded printing - August 2026. This edition adds a Warm-Up set to every chapter, more worked diagrams, and a closing capstone chapter that chains every skill together in one running story - plus a hand-drawn opening illustration and larger in-book diagram type for every chapter. It also follows a fresh end-to-end recheck of all 450+ problems, every worked example, and every answer key. No answers changed - the mathematics is the same book you already know, just bigger and easier to read.
The math you actually use is a small, friendly set of skills. This is your workout for it.
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