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A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
June 20th, 2009; Vol.175 #13 (p. 29)
A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart
Prevailing math education makes the grade but misses the meaning, a teacher argues.
Bellevue Literary Press, 2009, 192 p., $12.95.

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