At a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Basic Math and Pre-Algebra; Chapter 1: Playing the Numbers Game; Inventing Numbers; Understanding Number Sequences; Looking at the Number Line; Four Important Sets of Numbers; Chapter 2: It's All in the Fingers: Numbers and Digits; Knowing Your Place Value; Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll: Rounding and Estimating; Chapter 3: The Big Four: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division; Adding Things Up.

Take It Away: SubtractingMultiplying; Doing Division Lickety-Split; Part II: Getting a Handle on Whole Numbers; Chapter 4: Putting the Big Four Operations to Work; Knowing Properties of the Big Four Operations; Doing Big Four Operations with Negative Numbers; Understanding Units; Understanding Inequalities; Moving beyond the Big Four: Exponents, Square Roots, and Absolute Value; Chapter 5: A Question of Values: Evaluating Arithmetic Expressions; Seeking Equality for All: Equations; Introducing Order of Operations; Chapter 6: Say What? Turning Words into Numbers.

Dispelling Two Myths about Word ProblemsSolving Basic Word Problems; Solving More-Complex Word Problems; Chapter 7: Divisibility; Knowing the Divisibility Tricks; Identifying Prime and Composite Numbers; Chapter 8: Fabulous Factors and Marvelous Multiples; Knowing Six Ways to Say the Same Thing; Connecting Factors and Multiples; Finding Fabulous Factors; Making Marvelous Multiples; Part III: Parts of the Whole: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents; Chapter 9: Fooling with Fractions; Slicing a Cake into Fractions; Knowing the Fraction Facts of Life; Increasing and Reducing Terms of Fractions.

Converting between Improper Fractions and Mixed NumbersUnderstanding Cross-multiplication; Making Sense of Ratios and Proportions; Chapter 10: Parting Ways: Fractions and the Big Four Operations; Multiplying and Dividing Fractions; All Together Now: Adding Fractions; Taking It Away: Subtracting Fractions; Working Properly with Mixed Numbers; Chapter 11: Dallying with Decimals; Understanding Basic Decimal Stuff; Performing the Big Four with Decimals; Converting between Decimals and Fractions; Chapter 12: Playing with Percents; Making Sense of Percents; Dealing with Percents Greater than 100%

Converting to and from Percents, Decimals, and FractionsSolving Percent Problems; Putting All the Percent Problems Together; Chapter 13: Word Problems with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents; Adding and Subtracting Parts of the Whole in Word Problems; Problems about Multiplying Fractions; Multiplying Decimals and Percents in Word Problems; Handling Percent Increases and Decreases in Word Problems; Part IV: Picturing and Measuring

Graphs, Measures, Stats, and Sets; Chapter 14: A Perfect Ten: Condensing Numbers with Scientific Notation; First Things First: Using Powers of Ten as Exponents.

Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies; About the Author; Dedication; Author's Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Arming Yourself with the Basics of Basic Math; Part II: Getting a Handle on Whole Numbers; Part III: Parts of the Whole: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents; Part IV: Picturing and Measuring

Graphs, Measures, Stats, and Sets; Part V: The X-Files: Introduction to Algebra; Parts VI: The Part of Tens; Index.