Claudia Zaslavsky

Fear of Math

How to Get Over It and Get on with Your Life!

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Claudia Zaslavsky has helped thousands of men and women understand why math made the miserable. Let her introduce you to real people who, like you, fled from anything to do with math.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780813520995
• ISBN-10: 0813520991
• Artikelnr.: 22297217

Autorenporträt

Claudia Zaslavsky, a leader in the use of multicultural materials in teaching math, is the author of Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture, The Multicultural Classroom, and many other books and articles on educational equity, math teaching, and math phobia. 

Inhaltsangabe

Who's afraid of math?
Who needs math? Everybody!
Myths of innate inferiority
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste!" Gender, race, ethnicity, and class
Our schools are found wanting
School math is not necessarily real math
Everybody can do math: solving the problem
Families, the first teachers
Mathematics of the people, by the people, for the people