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    How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone (Transcript)
    How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone (Transcript)
    How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone (Transcript)
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    How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone (Transcript)

    By Melinda Myers

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    How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone is the companion book to the audio/video series of the same name. It contains a full transcript of the series as well as the complete course guidebook which includes lecture notes, bibliography, and more.

    About this series:

    Quick: What's 25 × 45? How about 742 × 300? Or 4821 ÷ 9? Most of us, when faced with math problems like these, immediately reach for a calculator or a pen. But imagine if you could perform these and other seemingly difficult—but surprisingly easy—calculations right in your head. Seems like
    an impossible feat? It's not.

    One key to improving and expanding your math potential—whether you're a corporate executive or a high-school student—lies in the powerful ability to perform mental math calculations. Solving basic math problems in your head is a gateway to success in understanding and mastering higher mathematical fields such as algebra, statistics, and calculus. It's a skill that offers other lifelong benefits, including

    giving you a competitive edge in school or at work;
    keeping your mind active and sharp at any age;
    improving your performance on standardized tests; and
    learning to solve problems by using a variety of methods.

    Mental mathematics also is valuable when you're shopping for groceries or figuring out how much to tip at a restaurant. And perhaps the best part? Learning how to do mental math can be fun—especially when you're learning in the company of Professor Arthur T. Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College, one of the most engaging and entertaining members of The Great Courses faculty. The Secrets of Mental Math, his exciting new 12-lecture course, guides you through all the essential skills, tips, and tricks for improving and enhancing your ability to solve a range of mathematical problems right in your head.

    Mental Math—Made Simple

    Mental math, as Professor Benjamin demonstrates, is not as daunting as it may seem. In fact, it's an ability you already have—you just may not know it. Performing calculations in your head is all just a process of breaking down a large problem into simpler and simpler problems until it's finally reduced to a single answer.

    Assuming no detailed knowledge of mathematics other than what you learned in elementary school, Professor Benjamin has designed The Secrets of Mental Math to be accessible to anyone looking to tap into or strengthen his or her mental calculating skills.

    In the first part of the course, you focus on specific strategies for performing the basic nuts-and-bolts operations of mental mathematics.

    Adding any two numbers up to three digits
    Subtracting any two numbers up to three digits
    Multiplying any two numbers up to two digits
    Dividing any number by a number up to two digits

    Dr. Benjamin fills each lecture with a wealth of practice problems to follow along with and get you engaged in the joys of mentally solving math problems.

    Once you've gotten these four fundamental operations down, you then branch out into some interesting directions that continue to hone your mental math skills. Among the exciting skills you'll develop are

    how to find approximate answers using the art of "guesstimation";
    how to quickly find squares and square roots;
    how to improve your memory for numbers (including phone and credit card numbers) by using a simple phonetic code;
    how to approach enormous calculations with increased confidence and accuracy;
    how to mentally determine the day of the week of any date in history; and
    how to do rapid pencil-and-paper mathematics in ways seldom taught in school.

    And his accompanying course guidebook is filled with additional problems you can use to practice your newfound skills.

    Discover Valuable Mathematical Tips and Techniques

    Throughout The Secrets of Mental Math, Professor Benjamin leads you through some fun—and memorable—techniques for tackling specific mathematical calculations. Here's an example of one strategy he calls "Create a Zero, Kill the Zero," helpful for determining
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Great Courses
    Release dateOct 24, 2014
    ISBN9781598039214
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      Professor Kung, an accomplished violinist who is the concertmaster of his community orchestra, provides excellent insights into the mathematical nature of music, while never losing sight of music's true power, which the math only supports. Along the way, we learn a lot of interesting things about sound, why different instruments sound different, and why pianos are never in tune. (This was one of the most interesting episodes.) This is much more playful than other Teaching Company courses, as the Professor makes good use out of some of the special effects available to him. In each episode, he plays lots of the examples on his violin, which is always close at hand. I highly recommend this course to musicians who have a math aversion. Some of it will go deeper than they care for, but it always returns to the music, and it is a very enlightening course.

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