Published on 12, July, 2020
I decided that I needed a new book to read and managed to find one on my bookshelf that I’d only half read so thought I’d finish it off: Tower, An epic History of the Tower of London by Nigel Jones. I just wondered what everyone else is reading at the moment? What does everyone else like to read?
Currently in various stages of progress:
* The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph.
* Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics by Hung-Hsi Wu.
* Teaching Students How To Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate in Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills and Motivation by Saundra Yancy McGuire, Stephanie McGuire.
* Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Stephen Mumford.
* The course texts for the OU course I'm registered on that starts properly at the beginning of February.
That all sounds very philosophical. I hope that you enjoy reading them and doing your course. I need to get back into studying again at some point, maybe once the youngest starts school. What course are you going to be studying?
The Trivium book is very interesting but quite a hard read for me - a lot of it not my area. But I'm learning interesting things from it so it's good. The metaphysics book was because the trivium books so far has talked a lot about metaphysics, which I didn't really know anything about so I thought it would be helpful to get a bit more of an idea of what it involved.
I'm enrolled on a BSc. Mathematics degree, this course is the first level 1 course "Discovering Mathematics". It's quite basic but I'm aware I have quite a few gaps in my knowledge so I thought I'd use this to find out what I didn't know and it should be a reasonably stress-less way back into studying.
Thank-you.
Hope you enjoy it
I'm more inclined to some of the more pure stuff, but I'm pondering how much applied I should do. Luckily at this point it's not too much of an issue since level 1 and level 2 you don't really get much choice. So that's probably a question for about 4 years away!
I think I'm so far most looking forward to the calculus/analysis parts.
A Mathematics degree sounds very interesting! I like bits of maths, statistics and the maths/physics crossover of using algebra to calculate distances between stars etc. Are there any bits that you prefer over others? Good luck with the degree!