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Memoirs of a Maverick Mathematician
Dr. Zoltan P. Dienes is a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics" - an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs and dance to make it more appealing to children. Holder of numerous honorary degrees, Dr. Dienes has had a long and fruitful career, breaking new ground and gaining many followers with his revolutionary ideas of learning often complex mathematical concepts in such fun ways that children are often unaware that they are learning anything!
This is an honest account of an academic radical, covering his sometimes unconventional childhood in Hungary, France, Germany and Britain, his peripatetic academic career, his successes and failures and his personal affairs. Occasionally sad or moving, frequently amusing and always fascinating, this autobiography shares some of the intelligence, spirit and humanity that have made Dr. Dienes such a landmark figure in mathematics education. A 'must-read' for anyone with a professional interest in the field, this is also an absorbing and frank book for anyone interested in the life of a man of ideas who was not afraid to take on the might of the traditionalist educational establishment. (From back cover)
New ISBN 1 84426 192 1
A Hungarian translation
of the memoirs is available from SHL Hungary Kft., Budapest, Hungary. ISBN:
963 00 6106 6 Játék az életem Dienes Zoltán a 20.század egyik legfontossabb pedagógus-egyénisége.
Megkisérlte a lehetetlent: a gyrekek többsége számára megközelíthetetlenül
idegennek tünö matamatika tanulást játékos örömteli, alkotó tevékenységgé
változtatni. Ebben a könyvben az életét meséli el, amely ‘kész regény’.
Az ifjú Zoltán kirándulásai a 30-as évek Európájában épp olyn érdekesek,
mint a pápua újguineai kalandok. Minden élet egyedi és mégis sok-sok tanulsággal
szolgál. Dienes Zoltán igazi világpolgárként otthon érezte magát Nagy-Britannian,
Kanadában, Olaszországban, Ausztráliáben egyaránt, talán azért is, mert
a gyerekek mindenütt egy nyelvet beszélnek, és ö mindig elsösorban velük
akarta megtalálni a kapcsolatot.
(See cover on left.)
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