A Mathematician's Lament
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“One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen.”—Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR’s Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful and rejects standard anxiety-producing teaching methods. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart’s controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike and it will alter the way we think about math forever. Paul Lockhart, has taught mathematics at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz. Since 2000, he has dedicated himself to K-12 level students at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.
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This is the BEST book on education ever — I’ve read it a couple times now and it just makes me so sad that I didn’t have a teacher like Paul Lockhart, and it makes me crazy that despite his book, the US has doubled and tripled down on drone model “math education” that, as he says, is exquisitely well designed to crush any interest in or desire to engage with anything mathematical. If we in the USA taught reproduction as well as we teach math, we’d have a collapsing population that would make Japan’s birth dearth seem like a population explosion.
