Mathematics Rebooted - A Fresh Approach to Understanding

Would you like to understand more about mathematics? Perhaps at school you liked it for a while but were put off because you missed a key idea and kept getting stuck. Whatever the case, this book is for you.

List of contents

• 1: Multiplying


• 2: Shapes


• 3: Adding up


• 4: Graphs


• 5: Dividing

About the author

Lara Alcock is a Reader in Mathematics Education. She earned a BSc and MSc in Mathematics and a PhD in Mathematics Education at the University of Warwick, then spent four years at Rutgers University and two at Essex before taking up her present post in the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough, where she is now Head of Department. She conducts research in mathematical thinking and learning, with a focus on the transition from school to undergraduate mathematics. She won the 2012 Mathematical Association of America Selden Prize for research in undergraduate mathematics education, and she has written two books for undergraduates, How to Study for a Mathematics Degree (OUP, 2012) and How to Think about Analysis (OUP, 2014). She has won numerous Loughborough School of Science teaching awards, and in 2015 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

Summary

Would you like to understand more about mathematics? Perhaps at school you liked it for a while but were put off because you missed a key idea and kept getting stuck. Whatever the case, this book is for you.

Additional text

This book is a delightful journey through a lot of stimulating mathematics. Throughout the book, the pleasure of doing mathematics comes through powerfully... If this book cannot help to bring a lost soul back to mathematics, then nothing will.

Product details

• Authors: Lara Alcock, Lara (Reader in Mathematics Education Alcock, Alcock Lara
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198803799
• ISBN: 978-0-19-880379-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; popular science, MATHEMATICS / General, Mathematics, Popular mathematics, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Mathematics