Barbara Wheatley

With Once Upon A Prime, I can only take the approach of a non-mathematical layman and give you a taster of what’s to come. I investigate numbers in everyday calculations, transactions, accounts, receipts and in counting coins, before going round in circles, going off at a tangent. Professor Hart, however, has delivered a debut novel that’s got me curious about the relationships between mathematics and literature that goes beyond poetry.

Ahead of the publication of her new book in the UK, this most anticipated, award-winning American Ethiopian immigrant writer, examines various meanings of ‘home’ across 15 short stories. It is a destination, an emotion, a location and more. Hadero considers what it means to be lost and displaced, with human currency and agency ignored and if one was to draw a mind map, I’d say this is the exact collection of stories you’d get.

Article Laura S. Tortorelli PDF ShareShare ABSTRACT Advocates of the science of reading have argued that (a) teacher preparation programs do not provide adequate preparation to teach code‐related reading skills; (b) as a result, teachers lack knowledge of this area of literacy development; and (c) without that knowledge, teachers are unable to effectively teach students to read. In this integrative literature review, we assessed the research evidence for the first claim.