How to Use This Book vi
Easy, Medium, Hard, and Guessing vii
About Brian Leaf viii
Acknowledgments ix
Pretest 1
Answer Key 11
Top 50 Skills
Skill 1 Use the Answers 12
Skill 2 Super Easy Algebra 14
Skill 3 Super Easy Algebra-Algebraic Manipulation 16
Skill 4 "Mean" Means Average 18
Skill 5 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Angles 20
Skill 6 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Parallel Lines 22
Skill 7 The Six-Minute Abs of Geometry: Triangles 24
Skill 8 Foil 26
Skill 9 Math Vocab 28
Skill 10 More Math Vocab 30
Skill 11 Multiples Vocab 32
Skill 12 Fancy Graphing Vocab 34
Skill 13 Green Circle, Black Diamond: Slaloming Slope I 36
Skill 14 Green Circle, Black Diamond: Slaloming Slope II 38
Skill 15 The Sports Page: Using Charts and Graphs 40
Skill 16 The Only Function Questions on the ACT 42
Skill 17 Midpoint and Distance Formulas 44
Skill 18 Make It Real 46
Skill 19 Perimeter, Area, Volume 48
Skill 20 Donuts 50
Skill 21 Baking Granola Bars-Ratios, Proportions, and Cross-Multiplying 52
Skill 22 Intimidation and Easy Matrices 54
Skill 23 Art Class 58
Skill 24 The Mighty Pythagoras 60
Skill 25 Special Right Triangles 62
Skill 26 Ant-Man 64
Yoga and The Society For Free Living 66
Skill 27 "Is" Means Equals-Translation 68
Skill 28 Arithmetic Word No-Problems 70
Skill 29 Just Do It!-Springboard 72
Skill 30 Beyond Your Dear Aunt Sally: The Laws of Exponents I 74
Skill 31 Far Beyond Your Dear Aunt Sally: The Laws of Exponents II 76
Skill 32 y = mx + b 78
Skill 33 Arrangements 80
Skill 34 SohCahToa! 84
Skill 35 Beyond SohCahToa 86
Skill 36 May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor … Probability 88
Skill 37 Anything Times Zero Is Zero 90
Skill 38 y = ax〈sup〉2〈/sup〉 + bx + c 92
Skill 39 Circles 94
Skill 40 Weird Circle Factoid 96
Skill 41 Absolute Value 98
Skill 42 Sequences 100
Skill 43 It's Gettin' Hot in Herre … Fahrenheit/Celsius Conversions 102
Skill 44 Don't Even Think About It! … Most Common Careless Errors I 104
Skill 45 Don't Even Think About It! … Most Common Careless Errors II 106
Skill 46 Misbehaving Numbers: Weird Number Behavior 108
Skill 47 Logs 110
Skill 48 Not So Complex Numbers 112
Skill 49 How to Think Like a Math Genius I 114
Skill 50 How to Think Like a Math Genius II 118
Brian's Friday Night Spiel 123
Bonus Skill: Hello Harvard … How to Break 30 125
Easy, Medium, Hard, and Guessing Revisited 126
Now What? 127
Posttest 128
Solutions 137
Glossary 169
Top 50 Skills Flash Cards