Fear Of Math
How to Get Over It and Get on With Your Life!
Claudia Zaslavsky has helped thousands of men and women understand why math made them miserable. Let her introduce you to real people who, like you, fled from anything to do with math. All of them--White, African American, Asian American, Latino, artist, homemaker, manager, teacher, teenager, or grandparent--came to see that their math troubles were not their fault. Social stereotypes, poor schools, and well-meaning parents had convinced them that they couldnÕt, or shouldnÕt, do math.
Claudia Zaslavsky shows you how the school math you dreaded is a far cry from the math you really need in life (and probably know better than you ever suspected)! She gives a host of reassuring methods, drawn from many cultures, for tackling real-world math problems. She explodes the myth that women and minorities are not good at math. With Claudia Zaslavsky’s help, you can see why math matters and how to get over the math barrier that has been holding you back from your goals in life.
What Zaslavsky does for mathematics is to remove the clandestine and reproachful stigma the public has generally had for the subject. Her easy, conversational style underscores this theme... Making this [book] widely available might enhance all of our efforts to make mathematics more accessible to every student, parent, administrator, and school board member and to the public in general.
Should be required reading for every elementary school teacher or pre-service teacher.
Claudia Zaslavsky - one of the finest and most sensitive math teachers I know - is exactly the person to guide you out of your fear 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
Performing Math
A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom
By Andrew Fiss
