DS is good at Maths and is hoping for a place at one of the top 10 Unis for Maths. He has a 'Maths brain' but had S&L difficulties when younger & has never read for pleasure - however hard I tried with books about football stats etc & stuff he's interested in, he never got beyond a few pages. He did manage to get an A in his English GCSEs but had exceptionally good teachers.
The Unis seem to expect evidence of lots of additional reading about Maths-related subjects in the UCAS form. I have no idea how to get DS to do this - wondered if anyone else has been through this, and did you find any Maths-related books your ds enjoyed that you could recommend? DH is trying to get him to read Fermat's Last Theorem which we both enjoyed when it first came out but there must be other stuff out there.
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GrumpyOldBag · 01/10/2016 10:46
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