by Barbara Oakley
No matter whether you are a student struggling to satisfy a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a occupation change that needs a higher degree of math competency, A Mind for Figures provides the equipment you need to have to get a better grasp of that overwhelming but inescapable discipline. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley understands firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way by means of large faculty math and science classes, just before enlisting in the military right away soon after graduation. When she observed how her deficiency of mathematical and technological savvy severely minimal her options – each to rise in the army and to explore other careers – she returned to college with a newfound perseverance to re-tool her brain to master the quite topics that experienced given her so much difficulty all through her complete existence. In A Thoughts for Figures, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to efficiently studying math and science – secrets and techniques that even devoted and productive college students wi…