A Mathematician's LamentA Mathematician's Lament
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Current format, Book, 2009, 1st ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats<p>“One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” —<b>Keith Devlin</b>, NPR’s “Math Guy”</p><p>A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart’s controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever.</p><p><b>Paul Lockhart</b> is the author of <i>Arithmetic</i>, <i>Measurement</i>, and <i>A Mathematician’s Lament</i>. He has taught mathematics at Brown University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and to K-12 level students at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.</p>
In this manifesto Lockhart explains that mathematics is in fact an art and that by reducing it to a set of facts and procedures to be memorized modern education methods have left nothing but a boring shell; comparable to studying music only with notation and theory, or painting through color swatches and paint-by-numbers. He contends that most students have only experienced math with the depth, beauty, imagination, and history removed and suggests we approach the subject from a playful, intuitive and aesthetic angle. Very well written, this book will be of equal interest to teachers, students, parents, mathematicians and general readers. Lockhart has taught mathematics at Brown U and UC Santa Cruz and currently teaches K-12 students in New York. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
<p>A brilliant mathematician’s manifesto for freeing math from the drudgery of traditional teaching</p>
In this manifesto Lockhart explains that mathematics is in fact an art and that by reducing it to a set of facts and procedures to be memorized modern education methods have left nothing but a boring shell; comparable to studying music only with notation and theory, or painting through color swatches and paint-by-numbers. He contends that most students have only experienced math with the depth, beauty, imagination, and history removed and suggests we approach the subject from a playful, intuitive and aesthetic angle. Very well written, this book will be of equal interest to teachers, students, parents, mathematicians and general readers. Lockhart has taught mathematics at Brown U and UC Santa Cruz and currently teaches K-12 students in New York. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
<p>A brilliant mathematician’s manifesto for freeing math from the drudgery of traditional teaching</p>
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