Laura Bush

For math anxious parents I highly recommend the book Math: Facing an
American Phobia by Marilyn Burns (also the author of books for kids--The I
Hate Mathematics Book and Math for Smarty Pants). Burns writes well about
math phobia and offers concrete ways to teach math so as to avoid
perpetuating the anxiety in our children. She's not writing from a
homeschooling point of view, but I found a lot of encouragement for our
math-in-context approach and she helped me relax about paper-and-pencil math
skills (which are not as important as schools might have us believe).
Laura Bush
laura@...
http://www.honeypot-hollow.com

> Thanks for sharing that story. It gives me a lot of hope and calms what I
> have discovered as my own math anxiety in action on my son. I will
continue
> my faith in his ability as scary as this is

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In a message dated 6/7/99 6:14:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bushla@...
writes:

<< For math anxious parents I highly recommend the book Math: Facing an
American Phobia by Marilyn Burns >>

Laura,
Thank you! This sound just like what I need.
Naticia

::she just is::

Another good book is "Overcoming Math Anxiety" by Sheila Tobias. Pretty
good -- I didn't finish reading it though because it was overdue. It seems
more geared toward women, but pretty good on the whole. ~Eryn

>In a message dated 6/7/99 6:14:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bushla@...
>writes:
>
><< For math anxious parents I highly recommend the book Math: Facing an
> American Phobia by Marilyn Burns >>
>
>Laura,
>Thank you! This sound just like what I need.
>Naticia
>
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In a message dated 06/08/1999 3:36:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Cyberdoula@... writes:

<<
<< For math anxious parents I highly recommend the book Math: Facing an
American Phobia by Marilyn Burns >>
>>
I read a bunch of her books, too and then relaxed. We also got into
tessalations, pattern blocks, toothpick and marshmallow constructions, rolled
up newspaper geodesic domes( my 7 yo dd told us tonight that did we know
that the triangle is the most stable figure) and many other art
activities--all mathematical thinking. Music is mathematical . We have an
interesting book(now out of print) called The Mathematical Basis of the Arts.
Both kids know how much money they have and both can always divide by 2!!!1
Debra