Paul Lockhart

A Mathematician's Lament

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“One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen.”—Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR’s Morning Edition
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.
Paul Lockhart, has taught mathematics at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz. Since 2000, he has dedicated himself to K-12 level students at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.
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129 printed pages
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
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    Observation and discovery are one thing, but explanation is quite another. What we need is a proof, a narrative of some kind that helps us to understand why this pattern is occurring
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    School has never been about thinking and creating. School is about training children to perform so that they can be sorted
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    it is far easier to test someone’s knowledge of a pointless definition than to inspire them to create something beautiful and to find their own meaning

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