Mathematics: The Basic Skills

Relating mathematics to everyday life, this textbook is considered particularly suitable for courses such as the City & Guilds Foundation Course in Numeracy, AEB Basic Numeracy, and GNVQ Core Skills. Worked examples and graded exercises provide practice in the use of calculators and estimation, and answers are included. This fifth edition provides practice on basic calculators, practice in estimating, converting miles per hour to kilometres per hour, and calculations which have been updated to include Council Tax and mobile phones.