Description
| Product ID: | 9781934137178 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | A Mathematician's Lament |
| Subtitle: | How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form |
| Authors: | Author: Paul Lockhart |
| Page Count: | 144 |
| Subjects: | Educational strategies and policy, Educational strategies & policy, Mathematics, Mathematics |
| Description: | A manifesto for freeing math from the drudgery of traditional teaching by a brilliant mathematician. “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.” —Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy” 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. Paul Lockhart is the author of Arithmetic, Measurement, and A Mathematician’s Lament. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bellevue Literary Press |
| Publisher Name: | Bellevue Literary Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-05-14 |
