Overcoming Math Anxiety
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393313077 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Two Stars No help at all and very boring.. A great piece of work This book is truly a wonderful piece of work and is invaluable for teachers and students of mathematics. I recently joined the faculty in a business college of a large state university where all faculty have advising responibilities. I meet students all the time who tell me they just can't get through the math requirement. I have started assigning this book to my advisees. Those who actually sit down and read it all - and I mean all - report being able to breeze through math once th. Overcoming Math Anxiety Review Dillon Redding Overcoming Math Anxiety is an excellent book for anyone interested in mathematics, teaching, or psychology. This book explains the causes of the mathematical anxiety and how it may be overcome. Tobias's examples are very helpful and may be the push someone needs in achieving success in a math class. Although this book has great information on the topic of anxiety as it relates to math, it is not a cure for those suffering from severe math anxiety. If you have some anxiety toward mat
What remains unchanged is the author's politics. It has been substantially updated to incorporate new research on what we know and don't know about "sex differences" in brain organization and function, and it has been enlarged to include problems, puzzles, and strategies tried out in hundreds of math anxiety workshops Tobias and her colleagues have sponsored. When this book was first published in 1978, Tobias's political and psychological analysis brought hope and made "math anxiety" a household expression. The new edition retains the author's pungent analysis of what makes math "hard" for otherwise successful people and how women, more than men, become victims of a gendered view of math. She sees "math anxiety" as a political issue. Sheila Tobias said it first: mathematics avoidance is not a failure of intellect, b
. A leading feminist activist, Sheila Tobias teaches politics and women's studies at the University of Arizona
“If you've ever said 'I'm no good at numbers,' this book can change your life.” (Gloria Steinem)