The Personality of Math - Paul A. Wagner, Frank Fair

The Personality of Math

A Key to Learning and Teaching Math
Buch | Hardcover
152 Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6297-3 (ISBN)
69,95 inkl. MwSt
This book shows that engaging with the personality of math is an essential key to learning and teaching math.
If our goal is to broaden and deepen students’ awareness and understanding of mathematics, we advance the idea that engaging students with what we metaphorically call the personality of math. That is, we think that students who engage with the math’s (1) human champions, (2) with its history and philosophy, and (3) with the nature of its problems and inferential challenges, are more likely to have a positive attitude toward math that will encourage greater learning.

Paul A. Wagner, Ph.D., is the author of over 130 publications including nine books. He is chair of the Department of Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Houston. Frank Fair, Ph.D., has a number of publications in a variety of academic journals, and has co-authored a number of books, including one on innovation in quality management and one on team creativity in business. Two other recent publications that are especially

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chap. 1 Indoctrination and Genuine Math Education

Chap. 2 The Personality of Math

Chap. 3 The Human Side of Mathematical Personality

Chap. 4 Two Takes on Recent History: (1) Pure vs. Applied Mathematicians and (2) Women in Mathematics

Chap. 5 Math Problems and the Personality of Math

Chap. 6 Educating for Understanding the Personality of Math

Chap. 7 Introducing Students to Mathematics

References

Index

About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 228 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Pädagogische Psychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 1-4758-6297-0 / 1475862970
ISBN-13 978-1-4758-6297-3 / 9781475862973
Zustand Neuware
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