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

© 2016 Jon Arnhold. All rights reserved.

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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

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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