Verbal Percents - Verbal Math Lesson Author:Michael Levin, Charan Langton Your child having problems with percents? In this book we bring a verbal approach to learning decimal operations and percents. Things like figuring out interest, discounts, profit, cost, tax etc. It is designed for children in middle schools and consists mostly of word problems with answers given. The problem must be read to the child. The book ... more »is not intended to be handed to the child as you would other books. In this book, we bring the verbal approach to help your child become proficient with percents. If your child is not proficient with percents, it is likely that he or she will begin to dislike math in higher grades. With Verbal Percents, your child will learn, in a very gradual manner, basic decimal operations and most importantly how to do and make sense of percents. She will be able to solve in her head such complex looking problems as: A girl spent $10 more than 33.33% of her money in one store and $5 more than 50% of the rest in the second store. She then had $20 left. How much did she start with? Follow the step-by-step lessons in this book and see your child do even complex-looking problems quickly and accurately. All without pencil or paper. We recommend that your child first do the Verbal Fractions book.« less