53 Ways to Ask Questions in Mathematics and Statistics

by Ruth Hubbard

Maths & Stats educators have long believed that students learn by working (often standard) exercises, and getting the 'right' answer. This book encourages the teacher to help students reflect and 'construct' in their learning rather than merely trying to memorise.

State a definition
Substitute data into a formula
Apply/carry out an algorithm
Prove something
Extend a concept

188 pages, Paperback

About the author

Ruth Hubbard was a professor of biology at Harvard University, where she was the first woman to hold a tenured professorship position in biology. She authored several books challenging the male model of science.

Born Ruth Hoffmann in Vienna, Austria, she escaped Nazism as a teenager, moving with with her family to the United States. Hubbard graduated from Radcliffe College in 1944, earning an A.B. in biochemical sciences.