Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Review: Math, Better Explained: Learn to Unlock Your Math Intuition


Math, Better Explained: Learn to Unlock Your Math Intuition
Math, Better Explained: Learn to Unlock Your Math Intuition by MR Kalid Azad

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



...Parents can find their own path to insight here while teachers may find some classroom capsules to enliven lectures. The author tries very hard, almost with exasperation, to avoid any definition without motivation, any explanation with linkage to intuition. Azad excitedly brings light to imaginary numbers as the arithmetic of rotation, natural logarithms in terms of time to grow, and exponentials as growth over time...

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