(Ebook) Vision in Elementary Mathematics by W. W. Sawyer ISBN 9780486143620, 0486143627

(Ebook) Vision in Elementary Mathematics by W. W. Sawyer ISBN 9780486143620, 0486143627

THIS is a book about mathematics at a very low level. In recent years there seems to have been a sudden increase in the world’s demand for mathematicians. A consequence of this has been that many people who do not feel themselves particularly qualified in mathematics find themselves called upon to teach it, either in an official or an informal capacity. A school’s regular mathematics teacher leaves for a post in industry, and the French teacher has to take over his classes. A teacher of young children, who never liked arithmetic much and never did very well at it, finds that public attention is being focused on how she teaches it. Students at teacher training colleges have a similar experience. Parents find themselves unofficially involved in a similar dilemma. They want to help their children with mathematics but they fear that little good will come of the blind leading the blind.