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.