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My Math Books Reviews - up till March 2021

 

Hello my dear parents, students and colleagues 😊 maybe someone else to ?  😃 Hi to you too!

In this vlog I will present you my reviews on some math books. Feel free to check them and let me know have you had a chance to read them.

The must-read-my-favorite-ever 😊 is "Mathematics Education Across Time & Place Over Two Millennia From Athens to Zimbabwe" by Thomas O'Shea, 2016.

Next are two just marvelous books. Both of them are source of plentiful of mathematics' hidden gems. The first one (the red one) is  Mathematics From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity Anne Rooney, 2017, and the second one is "The Mathematics of Everyday Life", by Alfred S. Posamentier, 2018.

The next books I will just list, and leave a star-review.  I have laid out the meaning of the stars-number.

1- Still didn't get to a book that I would marked as 1

2-waste of time, even some misinformation

3-good reading, not so useful

4-useful reading, I'm recommending 

5-has changed my point of view/changed my life 😀 


Measuring Student Knowledge and Skills, BookMeasuring Student Knowledge and SkillsThe PISA 2000 Assessment of Reading, Mathematical and Scientific Literacy

2000
 


Mathematics an Illustrated History of Numbers

Mathematics, BookBeatty, Ricards,
Beatty, Richard, Jackson, Tom 1972-
2017


More Math Games and Activities From Around the World, Book




More Math Games and Activities From Around the World
Zaslavsky, Claudia
2003 

 

Kitchen Math

Brendel, Susan
1997



Mathemagic!

Number Tricks 

Colgan, Lynda, 1953-2011




Man Through His Art Education 

World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession

1966



Early Schools

Kalman, Bobbie 
1982


Everyday Life Math 

Lucia McKay, Maggie Guscott 
2005

                                     Math in Everyday Life

David E. Newton
Third Edition, 2001




Bedtime Math
The Truth Comes Out
by Overdeck, Laura
Book - 2015 | First edition

Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to stay up late
Laura Overdeck
Book - 2013 | First edition



All New Square Foot Gardening With Kids

Learn Together : Gardening Basics, Science and Math, Water Conservation, Self-sufficiency, Healthy Eating

Bartholomew, Mel

2014

I'm Trying to Love Math
by Bethany Barton
2019


The Grapes of Math, 
Mind-stretching Math Riddles
by Greg Tang
2001 | First edition
 "Book full of 
rhymed math riddles for preschool 
and elementary level kids. 
I liked the riddles"




Mummy Math An Adventure in Geometry
Cindy Neuschwander 
2005
"Nice reading for introducing the kids with 
the 3D -shapes, or just keeping the interest for them."










The Girl With A Mind for Math
The Story of Raye Montague
Julia Finley Mosca
2018
"The book tells us the story about the girl named Raye.
 Despite the obstacles, Raye manages to strive,
 to follow her dream, to forgive and to fulfil her dream.
It's a true story! "




Secrets of Mental Math
The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
by Arthur Benjamin 
2006
"Maybe I had high expectations for this book. 
However, if you understood math at elementary and high school 
there is not so much new that you will lean here. 
Or maybe that's just me- the math teacher who knows the math, so I'm already familiar and applying most of the skills and techniques described in the book.
Maybe the two trick on the last pages are something new...



Math Makers
The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians
by Posamentier, Alfred S.
2020




Mathematical Sccandals
Theoni Pappas
1997
















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