Transitioning to Elementary School teaching and need some advice on bolstering my math skills

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I'm an English major trying to make the transition to Elementary School teaching. For as long as I can remember, I've been extremely math-anxious and I've only done the bare-minimum level of Math work needed to get my degree. Because teaching Math is a requirement for every Elementary School teacher in the US, I'd like to start improving my mathematical competence now.

I was hoping someone could recommend a good pre-calculus textbook for someone who's looking into re-teaching themselves the foundations of math. I'm not doing this to pass some test, I'd just like to improve my math skills across the board so I'm better able to pass on the knowledge to my students.

Thanks for your time!

manpreet 2 years ago

I am learning statistical inference by myself, I have skim through a few books like Casella Hoggs and I find it omitted lots of details, for example, they didn't introduce the conditional expectation, so there are only proofs in discrete case about "sufficient statistics " "factoring theorem ", etc. could you recommend me a book for graduates or doctor degree? thanks!

background: I'm a first-year graduate student working on probability.