The Mathematics Survival Kit

Professor Jack Weiner taught at the University of Guelph from 1974 to 1976. He spent the next five years at Parkside High School in Dundas, Ontario. In 1982, he was re-recruited by Guelph and has been happily teaching and writing there ever since. He has won both the University of Guelph Professorial Teaching Award and the prestigious Ontario Conderation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award. He has been listed as ...

1) After class, DON'T do your homework! Instead, read over your class notes. When you come to an example done in class...

2) DON'T read the example. Copy out the question, set your notes aside, and do the question yourself. Maybe you will get stuck. Even if you thought you understood the example completely when the teacher went over it in class, you may get stuck.

And this is GOOD NEWS! Now, you know what you don't know. So, consult your notes, look in the text, see your teacher/professor. Do whatever is necessary to figure out the steps in the example that troubled you.

If you listen to public radio on the weekends, you have likely heard a university math professor who is also the Math Guy. But if your tastes run more to television, you may have also seen the Friday night CBS show, Numbers, in which a curious young math wiz named Charlie, solves crimes using mathematics. Regardless of your viewing or listening habits, it's apparent more emphasis is being placed on math.

Now, comes The Mathematics Survival Kit. It's written by Professor Jack Weiner from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Weiner has partnered with education software provider, Maple, to produce an interactive e-book version of his math survival book. The University of Guelph has taken the lead introducing e-books , intelligent assessment systems, and podcasts nto its math curriculum. This next generation of educational technology provides teachers with ore time to motivate students and improve their comprehensive retention.

Student's interest in math, grade averages, and success rates have reportedly improved. . . . .