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

from sruszala

Easy, fun, devastatingly on target in terms of the math curriculum. My only criticism: what to do next if you're a parent and want to know how to engage your child in the art of math?

from KateLowry

Wonderful; adapted from the essay of the same title that had previously been circulated unpublished in mathmatical circles for years. This is Paul Lockhart's brilliant 140 page arguement that maths is 'the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.' And his arguement is very persuasiv...

from otterlake

Someone has said it out loud...mathematics is creative. It is not a mind numbing, rote exercise in memorization. I don't know how many times I've tried to explain this to colleagues and friends who simply don't understand and who think I've lost my mind. Now I have backup. Hallelujah!

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This is the kind of math I love, and would have done a lot more of if I had been exposed to it at an earlier age. (I have far too many things I like to do to spend time getting up to speed on mathematical logic at this point.)

from dmcolon

Paul Lockhart seems like he'd be an amazing math teacher. His book The A Mathematician's Lament shows him to be an incredibly motivated teacher of the subject. The book is a prolonged critique of contemporary mathematics education and as such, Lockhart lands a number of serious blows. Math educat...