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"This new edition is one that should be on the shelf of every editor and reporter. It is a valuable resource."

- Doug Fisher, University of South Carolina

Journalists are notoriously bad with numbers. Either from lack of training or an innate phobia of figures, journalists routinely avoid tackling math problems and often make mistakes when they do delve into numbers.

Math Tools for Journalists addresses this problem creatively and thoroughly. Written by veteran educator Kathleen Woodruff Wickham Ed.D., Math Tools explains math concepts in layman’s language and shows how these concepts apply to situations journalists face every day.

The second edition of Math Tools contains an expanded section on business math, a chapter on federal statistics, a section on probability, a chapter on the language of numbers, and many other additions and improvements.

"I've long thought journalism schools should require a course called ‘Numbers for Journalists.'"
- Michael Gartner, Brill’s Content, April 2001