The Math Myth

And Other STEM Delusions

Andrew Hacker

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The New Press
16 June 2016

Educational strategies & policy; Curriculum planning & development

The ""lively"" (Kirkus Reviews), provocative, much-talked-about book that challenges the mandate for all students to master a full menu of mathematics, from the bestselling author

When Andrew Hacker published an op-ed in the New York Times questioning the requirement of advanced mathematics in schools, it instantly became one of the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests and aptitudes? In response to the controversy sparked by his ideas, Hacker fleshed out his arguments in The Math Myth, which Diane Ravitch has hailed as an ""important book"" that ""demolishes some totally unrealistic policies that will prevent many students from ever receiving a high school diploma and leading useful lives.""

In a book Howard Gardner calls ""important and timely-and a great read,"" Hacker offers a bold examination of widely held assumptions about the Common Core curriculum, the frenzied emphasis on STEM, and the type of knowledge that is-and will be-needed for most jobs. A mathematics professor himself, Hacker, in this ""direct and clear"" (Kirkus Reviews) ""worthwhile read"" (National Book Review), honors mathematics as a calling and extols its glories and its goals-yet shows how mandating it for everyone not only prevents other talents from being developed, but acts as an irrational barrier to graduation and fulfilling careers.

By: Andrew Hacker
Imprint: The New Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 434g
ISBN: 9781620970683
ISBN 10: 1620970686
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 16 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Andrew Hacker. He teaches at Queens College and lives in New York City.

Reviews for The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions

Praise for Mismatch Few people writing today for a general audience can make more sense of numbers. The Wall Street Journal Praise for Money A political scientist doing with statistics what Fred Astaire did with hats, canes, and chairsHe doesn't crunch numbers, he makes them live and breathe. Newsweek Praise for Two Nations His insights into the racial wounds that refuse to close are searing, and urgently need to be addressed. Kirkus Witty at times and searingly direct. Publishers Weekly Praise for Higher Education? Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus have written a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the state of American higher education. The New York Times