Paul A. Wagner, Frank Fair

The Personality of Math (eBook, PDF)

A Key to Learning and Teaching Math

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881879341
• Artikelnr.: 74626481

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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