A Mind For Numbers Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Barbara Oakley, PhD
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
237

A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley, PhD Book Summary

The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"

Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. 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 learning effectively—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier. Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there’s only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions—you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over. The learning strategies in this book apply not only to math and science, but to any subject in which we struggle. We all have what it takes to excel in areas that don't seem to come naturally to us at first, and learning them does not have to be as painful as we might think.

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Book Name A Mind For Numbers
Genre Self-Improvement
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Language English
E-Book Size 9.77 MB

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Impressive. This book clearly and simply teaches many of today's best learning methods. Oakley masterfully weaves in real-life stories from students and teachers to illustrate principles from the lessons. Then she helpfully summarizes key points from each chapter and encourages application of each chapter's lessons to recall and remember the material. I am already applying many of these principles and am looking for ways to do more.

Fantastic Book for ALL to Read. A fantastic book that is worth reading for anyone. Great advice for learning in any context!

Now You Have No Excuse. Simple and fun, this is a book for the people. You now have no excuse not to ace that test. If you already have success in math and science, this book will simply solidify what you already know. If you are struggling then this book will be an amazing help to you as your pursue that course and get an A. Every student should read this book.

Missing part. I'm still reading the book and I think there are missing part of the book. Kindly check the end of chapter 2

didn’t read it yet. But it looks really good,mani_1366 its not just you!

Life changing!. A life changing book! I wish someone had told me about it when I was still in High School or College.

Excellent. Definitely a must read for anyone who wants to keep on learning specially if you are not good at math and science. I wish I would've known this book during college. Unfortunately after I got my degree in engineering for some weird reason I decided to read books. I've always hated it. But this book is definitely a game changer.

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Summary of A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley, PhD

The A Mind For Numbers book written by Barbara Oakley, PhD was published on 31 July 2014, Thursday in the Self-Improvement category. A total of 237 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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