SIMPLE MATHEMATICS TRICKS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

Simple Mathematics Tricks for Junior High Schools is our first publication authored by John Bagiliko. This book sold about five hundred (500)  copies in a matter of two weeks. He wrote this book while in his second year pursuing BSc. Mathematics at the University for Development Studies (UDS) Navrongo, now CKTUTAS.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book is presented in a way that will arouse the interest of the reader to learn arithmetic. For example, 11 × 35 can be computed by placing the 3 and 5 as 3….5. The 3 and 5 are again added and placed in between 3….5. This becomes 385. This is very amazing and confirms that arithmetic computation can be very interesting. In the book, there are many of these which will help the reader to know how to compute similar ones. The book also presents to the reader various simple tricks to be used in computing many arithmetic questions.

This book is targeted at the Junior High School pupils and below who are required to write their mathematics exams without the use of calculators. It presents them with fascinating tricks to ace their exams with ease. 

What will the reader be able to do after reading this book? The author presents the book in such a way that, after the reader has gone through it, he or she should be able to perform some operations such as multiplying two numbers using the fingers and estimating square roots. 

These are all things the reader will be able to do without the use of a calculator. The reader is also expected to practise these things well to be able to give out answers to any of those computations within a few seconds. The book is actually a must-read since we all need arithmetic in our daily activities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Bagiliko is a data scientist and software engineering consultant. He is also the Zindi Country Ambassador for Ghana, and co-founder and team lead of AI Ghana. John holds MSc. Mathematical Sciences, with a specialty in Big Data and Computer Security,  from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, AIMS Senegal. He is passionate about mathematics and its application in solving real-world problems. John is a phenom as far as artificial intelligence, mathematics and general tech is concerned, and he has won multiple awards in the past two years, including a Google grant that flew him to attend the Deep Learning Indaba 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. He has been an advocate of simple mathematics right from high school. John loves to teach what he knows and had his alias, Tee, from his peers and students. He also loves to read and write at his leisure. 

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