Reviews for U.S. Labor and Latin America A History of Worker's Reponse to Intervention

The average rating for U.S. Labor and Latin America A History of Worker's Reponse to Intervention based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-02-24 00:00:00 Courtnay Coulombe I read Sawyer's A First Look at Numerical Functional Analysis, and quite enjoyed it as an introduction to the topic. This book is all about how to teach elementary mathematical skills in algebra to kids. It covers the topic from a variety of angles and with lots of figures and explanatory notes. I think he makes some great points about teaching mathematics and makes it clear that these are suggestions on how to teach, not a prescription. It gave me a couple of new ways of explaining math concepts to others, and why certain conventions are followed. It also stresses that when teaching children don't get too rule-oriented or too philosophical. The material does not seem dated (although English units and English money do appear), and could easily be used today in teaching (and probably is). He also has a good sense of humor. For example, "The multiplication symbol was invented by some man, and presumably that man had the right to say what it meant. The philosophers stress that we may define a symbol in any way we like. So, if we liked, we could define 1/2*1/2 as 'a blood orange'. But philosophers tend to lose sight of the fact that nobody chooses to do so. The nature of the universe steers our thinking in a very definite direction."

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-25 00:00:00 Dan Allen The lower grade Saxon math books, I thought, were great math textbooks. The higher level maths books just started getting confusing. The book wouldn't explain one little part of a math problem, assuming you would figure it out or knew it. This caused a lot of stress and struggle and made math much harder than it shouldn't have been. It wasn't that I was really bad at math. I just didn't know how to fully perform problems so I got a lot of questions wrong.