Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail Author: Visit Amazon's Danica McKellar Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0452289491 | Format: PDF
Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail Description
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- Age Range: 9 and up
- Grade Level: 4 and up
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Plume; Reprint edition (July 1, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0452289491
- ISBN-13: 978-0452289499
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
When I was seven, my mother got a Mathematics degree. At 29, I got my own Mathematics degree -- and of 60 people that day who got Math bachelor degrees then and there with me, only three were women. My mother proved, and those three co-graduating women proved, and Danica proves now, that women can learn math. But that's not what junior-high and high school girls think, is it? Most teen girls think they're math-morons.
Danica has written this book for such math-panicked teen girls -- Danica has written this book not only to TEACH them, but to ENCOURAGE them: "You can learn this!"
The math covered in Danica's book is junior-high level -- Danica presumes that the reader already knows how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide; then Danica takes the reader up through Algebra I. Danica's math is solid; and Danica's explanations, easy to understand.
But this is not your brother's math book. If you flipped through the book quickly, not reading the text, the illustrations and all the girly-handwriting would make you think that it was a book about teen fashion. The book also has chapter headings like no other math book I've seen -- Chapter 7, for instance, is entitled, "Is Your Sister Trying to Cheat You Out of Your Fair Share? (Comparing Fractions)." Chapter 9, on complex fractions, starts out, "Say you're trying on an outfit for a party. You've got the dress, the shoes, and the earrings -- and now you're choosing the right necklace...."
Danica also includes three "testimonials" (profiles) of young women who are successful in their careers because they've mastered math. Rather than show three "Ugly Betties" or nerdettes, the three women profiled are BABES.
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