How Math Works - A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers

Informationen zum Autor G. Arnell Williams (MS Yale) is an associate professor of mathematics at San Juan College in New Mexico. He has won numerous teaching awards for helping people to overcome their fear of math. Klappentext Math is a subject many people find intimidating. But many don’t understand the history of math and how it came to be what it is today. Here, G. Arnell Williams illuminates, in plain and simple terms, how we got the math we use today, the math our children learn, and the math we struggle at times to explain. Zusammenfassung Math is a subject many people find intimidating. But many don’t understand the history of math and how it came to be what it is today. Here, G. Arnell Williams illuminates, in plain and simple terms, how we got the math we use today, the math our children learn, and the math we struggle at times to explain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Relevance of the Past 1. Tools of the Intellect 2. The World in Symbols 3. An Ancient Tool Gives Rise to Modern Mathematics 4. The Ancients Perform Miracles with Numbers Part II: The Spectacular Fusion of Calculation with Writing 5. Numeral Formations Come to Arithmetic 6. The Symmetry of Repetition 7. Dance of the Digits 8. The Highest Mathematical Faculties 9. The Powder Keg of Arithmetic Education Part III: Beautiful Dreams and Horrible Nightmares 10. Triumph of the Numerals 11. From the Frontier to the Classroom Part IV. Illuminations 12. Symbolic Illumination 13. General Resumé Notes Appendices Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: G. Arnell Williams, Williams G. Arnell
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2013
• EAN: 9781442218741
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1874-1
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; EDUCATION / Administration / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics / General, Educational administration and organization, School/community relations & school/home relations, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Primary and middle schools, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General