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Math by the Book
By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
I think that I shall never c Does the poem above make you feel like
A # lovelier than 3; you’re reading Chinese?
And than 1 it’s slightly more. When you look at numbers do you feel
like your head is spinning?
All things in nature come in 3s,
For 3 < 6 or 4,Bulletin
Like … , trio’s, Q.E.D.s; Are you just so glad that your student
While $s gain more dignity days are behind you and that you never
if augmented 3 x 3 — have to take another math test again?
A 3 whose slender curves are pressed A lot of adults (and children) feel that
By banks, for compound interest; they will never understand math. That’s
Oh, would that, paying loans or rent,
My rates were only 3%! twenty-six. Now, she’s a professor of
system engineering and has a PhD in the
3² expands with rapture free,
wrote a book called A Mind for Numbers:
3 complements each x and y, How to Excel at Math and Science (Even
if you Flunked Algebra) to explain how
she overcame her failure in math and
A circle’s # of °
Are best ÷ up by 3s,
But wrapped in dim obscurity Oakley explains that math builds on it-
Is the square root of 3… self, so if you miss a concept at a key mo-
ment, you can fall helplessly behind. This
- John Atherton can happen because of two week
