A mathematician's lament : how school cheats us out of our most fascinating and imaginative art form / Paul Lockhart.
Material type: TextNew York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2009Description: 140 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmISBN:- 9781934137178
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 510.71 LOC TESF124 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | TESF124 |
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
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