Fear of math: how to get over it and get on with your life/
Zaslavsky, Claudia
Fear of math: how to get over it and get on with your life/ Claudia Zaslavsky. - New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1994. - x, 264 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-235) and index.
Who's afraid of math? -- Who needs math? Everybody! -- Myths of innate inferiority -- "A mind is a terrible thing to waste!" Gender, race, ethnicity, and class -- Our schools are found wanting -- School math is not necessarily real math -- Everybody can do math: solving the problem -- Families, the first teachers -- Mathematics of the people, by the people, for the people .
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Math anxiety-
Mathematics---Study and teaching
Self-help techniques-
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Fear of math: how to get over it and get on with your life/ Claudia Zaslavsky. - New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1994. - x, 264 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-235) and index.
Who's afraid of math? -- Who needs math? Everybody! -- Myths of innate inferiority -- "A mind is a terrible thing to waste!" Gender, race, ethnicity, and class -- Our schools are found wanting -- School math is not necessarily real math -- Everybody can do math: solving the problem -- Families, the first teachers -- Mathematics of the people, by the people, for the people .
0813520908 : $18.95 0813520991 (pbk.)
93043904
Math anxiety-
Mathematics---Study and teaching
Self-help techniques-
510.7 / Z38f