Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A Mathematician's Lament

I have just started this book and I think it's going to be HUGE in how we think about math around here...

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

By Paul Lockhart

A manifesto for freeing math from the drudgery of traditional teaching by a brilliant mathematician.

You can download the PDF file here, or buy the longer book-length version here.

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