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    *The Secret of Math: An English Lover’S Guide to Working with Math
    *The Secret of Math: An English Lover’S Guide to Working with Math
    *The Secret of Math: An English Lover’S Guide to Working with Math
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    *The Secret of Math: An English Lover’S Guide to Working with Math

    By Jon Arnhold

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    Because I love English and I hate math! replied the first-year college student when I asked her what was going on as an evaluation of her transcript revealed most subject areas completed except for math and science. There was something deep and emotional at work in her words. She it could easily have been a he needed not just help, but a major shift in the way she thought about math and science. Herein is that help. This is a simple approach built from years of college advising, and if implemented, will open the door to another way of working with math, and looking at life.
    While the book is designed for the college student who has been highly successful in avoiding math and/or science, it does have application in the primary through secondary school system. And, it is also a communication tool that may be used in personal relationships.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 22, 2016
    ISBN9781504974639
    *The Secret of Math: An English Lover’S Guide to Working with Math
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    Jon Arnhold

    Born in Tacoma, Washington, graduated from Fife High School, spent four years, three months and 22 days of active duty with the US Navy, then attended and graduated from Green River Community College with an AA degree, Western Washington University with a BAEd, and Seattle University with an MEd (purposefully chosen because of a perceived lack of math and did not have to take the GRE’s – a test that has lots of math and English in it), spent four years, three months, and 22 days on active duty in the US Navy, twice climbed 14,410 foot Mt. Rainier, once bicycled around Oahu, has a wife and two sons, four cats, one dog, and a love-hate relationship with a 1960 Austin Healey and a 1957 Chevrolet. Should the astute reader do a web search on the author’s name, please be aware that this Jon Arnhold is definitely not the same John Arnhold, billionaire, that pops up from the web search.

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      *The Secret of Math - Jon Arnhold

      © 2016 Jon Arnhold. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 01/22/2016

      ISBN: 978-1-5049-7465-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5049-7463-9 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016901002

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Phase One

      Phase Two

      Phase Three

      Afterward

      Freebie

      Disclaimer

      *It's Too Easy

      FOREWORD

      I apologize, I really do. It seems strange that I would begin a book with an apology to the reader. I'll wait to explain the nature of what I'm sorry about because, first, I'll provide the background for this book.

      About 20 years ago I was reviewing the assessment and placement data that new college students had completed. The placement instrument, still being used today, is a computer based assessment that can print the results of the reading, writing, and math scores as soon as the student has completed it. As an advisor at the community college where I have worked for many years, I would see these results, with the students who had just completed it, usually at a time when selecting classes for the next quarter was the goal. Over time, I had noticed an English and math placement pattern that indicated a much higher percentage of students at or near college-level English than at college-level math.

      To make sure I wasn't looking at an anomaly, I reviewed about two years of placement

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