Fear Of Math: How to Get Over It and Get on With Your Life! / Edition 1

Fear Of Math: How to Get Over It and Get on With Your Life! / Edition 1

by Claudia Zaslavsky
ISBN-10:
0813520991
ISBN-13:
9780813520995
Pub. Date:
05/01/1994
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10:
0813520991
ISBN-13:
9780813520995
Pub. Date:
05/01/1994
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Fear Of Math: How to Get Over It and Get on With Your Life! / Edition 1

Fear Of Math: How to Get Over It and Get on With Your Life! / Edition 1

by Claudia Zaslavsky
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Overview

Claudia Zaslavsky has helped thousands of men and women understand why math made them miserable. Let her introduce you to real people who, like you, fled from anything to do with math. All of them—White, African American, Asian American, Latino, artist, homemaker, manager, teacher, teenager, or grandparent—came to see that their math troubles were not their fault. Social stereotypes, poor schools, and well-meaning parents had convinced them that they couldn't, or shouldn't, do math.       

Claudia Zaslavsky shows you how the school math you dreaded is a far cry from the math you really need in life (and probably know better than you ever suspected)! She gives a host of reassuring methods, drawn from many cultures, for tackling real-world math problems. She explodes the myth that women and minorities are not good at math. With Claudia Zaslavsky’s help, you can see why math matters and how to get over the math barrier that has been holding you back from your goals in life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813520995
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 05/01/1994
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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. 

Table of Contents

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
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