A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
ISBN: 9781934137338
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baldfat · 2017-09-05 · Original thread
We teach mathematics backwards and in the wrong order and we push students through things they have not mastered.

"A Mathematician’s Lament" by Paul Lockhart

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....

BOOK published in 2009 https://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Lament-School-Fascinat...

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