Jeremy,
Congratulations on going to college! It's a lot of fun, you'll meet a lot of great people, and somewhere in there is something about "class" or something. I dunno, I think it's one of those urban legends, because I'VE never seen one.
Anyway, I don't know how you would PR a math book, but my friend did this thing to use his whole mind. If he was having trouble with a math problem, he told me he had a couple characters in his head that would act out solving it in some way. He said it's like a more extravagant method of talking to yourself when you go, "Wait, so do I differentiate these or not? Of course you do, you idiot!"
He said these characters (I said it was cute he still had imaginary friends) would do all sorts of stuff, like be baking a pie while they were talking about it. He said sometimes he had a "Leave it to Beaver" like sketch where the mom talks like a math professor and helps him out. It worked wonders on word problems.
I told him he had dependency issues, but he said the reason it worked was because he was using his imagination and his logic at the same time, using both sides of the brain. He was convinced he was bridging the gap between his cerebral cortex.
I think he's schizo.
I tried it once, but I'm really really bad at math, and didn't know what to do in the problem in the first place (for example, a kid can't solve 2 X 2 if he doesn't know how to multiply, and I always thought that "natural log" was a dead tree in the forest).
I dunno, give it a shot.
-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com ("Why was six afraid of 7? Because seven eight(ate) nine!" "Woah, Sesame Street made a joke about cannibalism!" "They're going downhill, man. They've jumped the shark, bigtime.")
