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A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart

By Science News

Prevailing math education makes the grade but misses the meaning, a teacher argues.

Bellevue Literary Press, 2009, 192 p., $12.95.

A MATHEMATICIAN’S LAMENT: HOW SCHOOL CHEATS US OUT OF OUR MOST FASCINATING AND IMAGINATIVE ART FORM BY PAUL LOCKHART

A version of this article appears in the June 20, 2009 issue of Science News.

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