A mathematician's lament : how school cheats us out of our most fascinating and imaginative art form /

Lockhart, Paul,

A mathematician's lament : how school cheats us out of our most fascinating and imaginative art form / Paul Lockhart. - 140 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Lockhart speaks "against the way mathematics is taught in too many schools--as a rigid system of mindless algebraic rules with little meaning and very little beauty. Lockhart who has been a math researcher as well as a K-12 math teacher."--Publisher's description

9781934137178


Educational evaluation --United States.
Mathematics --Study and teaching--Evaluation--United States.
Mathematics instruction.

510.71 LOC / TESF124

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