An Ocean of Math

Greetings, 

I have been teaching math for over twenty years, high school, middle, and younger. I have recently been working on a mathematics manual, not a text book. A few exercises with answers in the back will be included, but not the 40+ problems per section that typical textbooks have. Or the heft of a tome. It will be centered around the ocean, with sea themed illustrations. Everyday math items; numbers, fractions, arithmetic at the shore. Series, sequences, geometry, at the reef. More complex functions, integrals, and vectors deeper. And even more complex math at the depths, that most people don’t encounter. It would have a graphic, pictorial, visual emphasis, since there are connections between sea creature anatomy and mathematics, naturally. This book would be more easy to approach than a textbook, for school students, home schoolers. It would, also, aim to inspire some to pursue math in more depth. I would work with a graphic artist to make the visual layout, and supply the writing and content myself. I truly believe there is a market for such a book, perhaps beyond our own borders. Roger Penrose wrote an opus, called “Road to Reality”, like a dictionary, a thousand pages. I want to get that dictionary off the shelf more often, in like eighty pages. An appealing book to browse through and find connections between math and the world. Would you publish such a book? Please let me know.

anticipating, 

Louis Reycroft

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Norway, ME

I have a sketch of first chapter, simple numbers and shapes like shells on the shore. With some slightly rarer things like fractions and spirals.

I have over two decades of experience teaching mathematics to students from second grade to college credits seniors in AP classes, and elective topics like vector calculus, or Rheimann geometry.