Part One: Hope Larson discusses her newest book "Very Bad at Math - A Very Graphic Novel" - in which the main characters is an otherwise successful high school student who has terrible struggles with math because she suffers from Dyscalculia (a condition somewhat similar to Dyslexia, but with numbers instead of letters.) The author herself has had to deal with the same condition. Part Two: (from the archives) - Mathematics professor John D. Stein talks about his bookj "How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers from Car Repairs to Modern Physics."
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