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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
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Include books by the same authorWhy Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Daniel T. Willingham · 320 pages
Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building kno
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
John Medina · 304 pages
Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is
Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery Book 1)
Kevin Horsley · 141 pages
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel · 336 pages
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concr
Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 8
Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams · 283 pages
Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the eighth-grade level through visualization, play,
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Paul Lockhart
What's Math Got to Do with It?: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject--and Why It's Important for America
Jo Boaler · 264 pages
An alarming look at what's wrong with math education in the United States, and what we can do to change it The United States is rapidly falling behind the rest of the developed world in terms of math education, and the future of our economy depends on the quality of teaching that our children receive today. A recent assessment of mathematics performance around the world ranked the U.S. twenty-eigh
Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman · 521 pages
"This classic book on formal languages, automata theory, and computational complexity has been updated to present theoretical concepts in a concise and straightforward manner with increased coverage of practical applications. This third edition offers students a less formal writing style while providing the most accessible coverage of automata theory available, solid treatment on constructing proo
Linear Algebra and Its Applications [with CD-ROM]
David C. Lay · 576 pages
Line algebra is relatively easy for students during the early stages of the course, when the material is presented in a familiar, concrete setting. But when abstract concepts are introduced, students often hit a brick wall. Instructors seem to agree that certain concepts are not easily understood, and require time to assimilate.
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Daniel Tammet · 256 pages
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar · 460 pages
Relates how mathematical genius John Forbes Nash, Jr., suffered a breakdown at age thirty-one and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but experienced a remission of his illness thirty years later.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · 277 pages
Mindset is one of those rare books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way.A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. I
Calculus (Stewart's Calculus Series)
James Stewart · 1,120 pages
James Stewart's CALCULUS texts are widely renowned for their mathematical precision and accuracy, clarity of exposition, and outstanding examples and problem sets. Millions of students worldwide have explored calculus through Stewart's trademark style, while instructors have turned to his approach time and time again. In the Eighth Edition of CALCULUS, Stewart continues to set the standard for the
Linear Algebra and Its Applications
Gilbert Strang · 459 pages
This text combines the underlying theory discussions with examples from electrical engineering, computer science, physics, biology, and economics.
Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics
Neil J. Salkind · 424 pages
"Intended for anyone who wants to learn or brush up on the basics of statistics but is anxious about their abilities, this book offers a slow-paced, entertaining introduction to the topic. Using playful headings to encourage students to read further, the book begins with an introduction to the "language" of statistics, and then covers descriptive statistics (from computing measures of central tend
10 Days to Faster Reading
The Princeton Language Institute, Abby Marks Beale · 224 pages
How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
Cal Newport · 200 pages
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett, Maureen Ann Seaberg · 249 pages
"No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a viol
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
George Polya · 253 pages
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be “reasoned” out—from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have relis