Do you struggle with math? Would you like to help a child or students learn math, or would you like to improve your own relationship with it?
This book can help! Learn ways to make math relevant and connected, at every life stage. Maybe you experienced trauma when learning math, maybe it never made sense to you, maybe you’re trying to help a child or a class to learn it, or maybe you’d just like to deepen your understanding of it. The book can be your manual for a better relationship with math at any age.
The book, published by Rowman & Littlefield, is available to order now. Use the links below, or ask your local bookstore or library to order it for you.
Susan Midlarsky’s The Art of Learning Math: A Manual for Success is a comprehensive guide that explores the journey of mathematics learning from infancy to adulthood. The book offers a thoughtful consideration of mathematics education, interweaving key research findings with practical insights gained from Midlarsky’s extensive experience as a teacher, tutor, curriculum writer, and math coach.
Key Features
Developmental Approach: The book takes readers through the various stages of learning math, providing insights into how mathematical understanding evolves over time.
Interdisciplinary Perspective: Midlarsky integrates stories, examples, research references, evolutionary understandings, and connections to the arts to make math more relevant and comprehensible.
Practical Tools: The manual offers concrete, actionable strategies to help readers succeed in math education, whether they are teaching groups of children, their own children, or improving their own skills.
Common Core Alignment: The text is organized around Common Core content and process standards, making it particularly relevant for educators in the United States.
Highlights
Addressing Math Anxiety: The book tackles the cultural acceptance of innumeracy and aims to change negative attitudes towards mathematics.
Teaching for Understanding: Midlarsky emphasizes the importance of content and pedagogical knowledge, illustrating how to teach math for true comprehension.
Engaging Activities: The text provides a rich set of problems and activities designed to improve students’ understanding of and attitudes toward mathematics
Fractions Focus: A notable chapter breaks down grade-level expectations for fractions and stresses the importance of using manipulatives and discussion in math instruction
The Art of Learning Math is highly recommended for math teachers at all levels, administrators, parents, and anyone seeking to enhance their engagement with mathematics. It offers a fresh perspective on making math meaningful and enjoyable, potentially transforming how readers approach and teach this essential subject.
What a feast of mathematical food for thought! Every reader will take away big helpings of the delicious dishes offered at Ms. Midlarsky’s table of plenty.
Laurie Sopher-Heffron, classroom teacher for over 20 years
Susan Midlarsky has written a must-read book for math teachers, administrators, and parents. She brings the fun of learning to the math experience, while also de-mystifying complexities that frustrate many learners.
