Out-of-print
math titles whose covers, contents, or creators the present generation could still remember, because when they were students, teachers, or
parents, these wallet-friendly, brain-unfriendly books had positively impacted their mathematical learning or teaching, which were unsurprisingly bestsellers of their
day.
Singapore’s zombie
math titles of yesteryear like
Fabian Ng’s “Process Skills in Problem Solving,” Dr Y H Leong’s “Challenging Problems in Mathematics,” and K C Yan’s “Mathematical Quickies & Trickies” had not only differentiated themselves from the sea of canned drill-and-kill titles, but they have since become an integral part of the local
math education culture.