Thanks for the feedback! The book is more of a &quot;top concepts I wish I knew&quot; but not really a ground-up tutorial.<p>For starting from a clean slate, you might like:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;articles&#x2F;rethinking-arithmetic-a-visual-guide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;betterexplained.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;articles&#x2F;rethinking-arithm...</a><p>Once you can visualize the basic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide), every new math operation becomes a lot easier (complex numbers = rotations, exponents = growth, combining them = orbiting a circle...).