A Numerate Life Kathleen M. Feeley Obama overcame seemingly impossible obstacles

Obama overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to accomplish what other presidents had tried and failed to achieve for nearly one hundred years

teachers will get a dedicated chapter with research-based insights on how to teach English learners

and is also a long overdue and fitting tribute to the heroic men and women of the Behavioural Science Unit

This delightful and richly informative book amply proves that chemistry can appeal to our intuition

The discovery and imparting of knowledge are the essential undertakings of any university

A Numerate Life Kathleen M. Feeley Obama overcame seemingly impossible obstaclesEmploying intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should what part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets the suspension of disbelief required in storytelling and the skepticism inherent in the scientific method