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

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Lockhart, Paul [author.]

Material type: Text

TextNew York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2009Description: 140 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmISBN:

9781934137178

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DDC classification:

510.71 LOC TESF124 23

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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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