About the Book

Year Published: 2016
Page Count: 376
ISBN: 978-0-992533-00-7 (9780992533007)

Table of Contents

The Mathematics Book [published by Zenolith]

  1 WHOLE NUMBERS and the meaning of mathematics  
  2 FRACTIONS and the need for numeracy  
  3 DECIMALS and a major advance  
  4 GEOMETRY and a new approach  
  5 NEGATIVE NUMBERS and problem solving  
  6 ALGEBRA and a universal language  
  7 POWERS & ROOTS and a touch of mystery  
  8 MEASUREMENT and a digital code  
  9 PERCENTAGES & RATIOS and beautiful proportions  
  10 AREAS & VOLUMES and a continuing quest  
  11 EQUATIONS and having fun  
  12 PYTHAGORAS & TRIGONOMETRY and the power of proof  
  13 GRAPHS & RELATIONSHIPS and modelling our world  
  14 CHANCE & DATA and mathematical truth  
 

Authors

Author

Helen Prochazka

Helen Prochazka has taught mathematics in Australian high schools and colleges for many years. Her enduring love for mathematics goes back to her childhood. She is a former president of the Mathematical Association of Tasmania and a regular contributor to the Australian Mathematics Teacher journal.

She is the author of the Super Mathematics series of high school textbooks, one of which was used as the text for an Open Learning course for adults. Her teaching career has been combined with other ventures such as publishing, and music and film production.

Her passions include Bhutan, felines, Mona, retro music and life. Helen has a particular interest in helping adults who find mathematics challenging.