This is what i found in a post called UIL A on this forum:
"also, my uil academic coordinator gave me his own copy of elements of number sense by jim cummings.. It's a pretty comprehensive guide."
Bradp wrote this. I was just wondering if it was a good numbersense tool. I have a little spiral notebook which i write down tricks that people tell me and the ones that i may derive every once in a while. I'm not good at deriving the tricks......
Its like the bible of NS. Aaron Goldsmith helped put the latest edition together, and he was probably one of the best there ever was in the UIL math events.
Sure, the more the better. Aaron knows what he's doing, so a reference book edited by him wouldn't hurt. I haven't seen it so I don't know how good it is; but I'm sure it's not bad.
the more resources the better. i didn't mean to say i don't like it in my first post. it just won't have all the new stuff in it. It has all the basics that are good for someone still finding their way in the realm of NS
Of course, I'd always advocate learning everything by yourself above all else. 1st, be able to figure out a shortcut is quite exciting; 2nd, you'd always remember them better if you've figured them out yourself than reading it from some book. If you really can't get it, ask it online or something--- the more effort you put in to obtain something, the stronger you'll hold on to it. But nevertheless, that's just how I did it and how I think. Such a book is nice to have at hand. After all, I did read Don Skow's No sense in No.Sense my late sophomore year and did learn a few things that have been sticking with me. Sigh, thinking about how I'll soon be done with all of this....
