A mathematician's lament
A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful and rejects standard anxiety-producing teaching methods. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike and it will alter the way we think about math forever.
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- Full title :A mathematician's lament / Paul Lockhart ; with a foreword by Keith Devlin.
Summary
A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful and rejects standard anxiety-producing teaching methods. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike and it will alter the way we think about math forever.
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- Publication Date:2009.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bellevue Literary Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (140 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781934137338, 1934137332
- oclc:ocn681711678
- LC Classification:QA13
- Dewey Decimal:510.71
Table of Contents
Lamentation. Mathematics and culture ; Mathematics in school ; The mathematics curriculum ; High school geometry : instrument of the devil -- Exultation.
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