Fear of Math

by Zaslavsky, Claudia

• ISBN13: 9780813520902
• ISBN10: 0813520908
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Who's Afraid of Math?	p. 5
Who Needs Math? Everybody!	p. 26
Myths of Innate Inferiority	p. 47
"A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!" Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class	p. 69
Our Schools Are Found Wanting	p. 100
School Math Is Not Necessarily Real Math	p. 132
Everybody Can Do Math: Solving the Problem	p. 163
Families, the First Teachers	p. 193
Mathematics of the People, by the People, for the People	p. 216
Intervention Programs	p. 225
Organizations and Government Agencies	p. 227
Distributors of Mathematics Books and Materials	p. 230
Select Bibliography	p. 230
Notes	p. 237
Index	p. 257
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