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 AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Relevance of the Past1. Tools of the Intellect2. The World in Symbols3. An Ancient Tool Gives Rise to Modern Mathematics4. The Ancients Perform Miracles with Numbers Part II: The Spectacular Fusion of Calculation with Writing5. Numeral Formations Come to Arithmetic6. The Symmetry of Repetition7. Dance of the Digits8. The Highest Mathematical Faculties9. The Powder Keg of Arithmetic EducationPart III: Beautiful Dreams and Horrible Nightmares10. Triumph of the Numerals11. From the Frontier to the ClassroomPart IV. Illuminations12. Symbolic Illumination13. General ResuméNotesAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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