.VICENTE GARCÍA OLIVA: escritor asturiano, membro da Academia da Língua Asturiana e diretor da coleção de Literatura Juvenil da mesma academia. Também é membro da Sociedade Geral de Autores e Editoras.

Vicente Botín has worked for Televisión Española for 38 years, on programmes such as Informe Semanal and En Portada. Deeply knowledgeable about South America, he has reported on the region hundreds of times.

In order to teach well it is necessary to understand children’s learning processes. The negative attitudes of teachers and pupils to maths need to be modified.