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A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley [Oakley, Barbara] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Mind For Numbers about?
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and to explore other careers—she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life.In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning math and science—secrets that even dedicated and successful...
Who reads A Mind For Numbers?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barbara Oakley [Oakley, Barbara]
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Mathematical Foundations, Stem
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