A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

ISBN: 1934137170

Author: Paul Lockhart

Condition: Used

One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education. -Keith Devlin, NPRs Math GuyA brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockharts controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever.Paul Lockhart is the author of Arithmetic, Measurement, and A Mathematicians Lament. He has taught mathematics at Brown University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and to K-12 level students at St. Anns School in Brooklyn, New York.