What's math got to do with it?
Subtitle: helping children learn to love their most hated subject--and why it's important for America
By: Jo Boaler.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780670019526
Subjects: Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Understanding the urgency; title: 1. What is math? And why do we all need it?; title: 2. What's going wrong in classrooms? Identifying the problems; title: 3. A vision for a better future: effective classroom approaches; title: 4. Taming the monster: new forms of testing that encourage learning; title: 5. Stuck in the slow lane: how American grouping systems perpetuate low achievement; title: 6. Paying the price for sugar and spice: how girls and women are kept out of math and science; title: 7. Key strategies and ways of working; title: 8. Giving children the best mathematical start: activities and advice; title: 9. Making a difference through work with schools.