Math

How learning math is different and why it pays off; Managing math anxiety and PTSD, and how to reduce test anxiety; How to create a positive study environment and manage your time; How to improve your reading and homework techniques; How to improve your math test-taking skills; and more!

This workbook reinforces skills and minimizes frustration for students in any math class, lab, or study skills course. Offering a wealth of proven study tips and sound advice on note-taking, time management, and reducing math anxiety, the author makes the learning process both manageable and compelling. In addition, numerous opportunities for self-assessment enable students to track their own progress.

Who is this book for? First-year college students, high school students preparing for college, home school students, GED students, and students returning to college after an absence. It is important to know how to truly learn math, as well as how to apply math-specific study skills, as general study skills do not work in college-­level math courses.

A high-impact student success course that benefits and sustains students in college and beyond. The program provides students with the skills, tools, and mind-set they need to succeed in a global and ever-changing marketplace.

Stella Cottrell provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. She offers practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies.

Each short chapter of The Joy of X provides an "Aha!" moment, starting with why numbers are helpful, and moving on to such topics as shapes, calculus, fat tails, and infinity. Strogatz explains the ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, insight, and brilliant illustrations. Assuming no knowledge, only curiosity, he shows how math connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art, business, even pop culture and current events.

This book is a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras who believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw phi as the greatest treasure of geometry; such Renaissance thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose. Wherever his quest for the meaning of phi takes him, the author reveals the world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.