The Huffington Post – Lisa Burns
“Imagine a classroom filled with enthusiastic students posing some delightful and engaging questions – What happens when I draw a triangle within a rectangular box? Is infinity a number?…In A Mathematician’s Lament, How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form, Paul Lockhart, mathematician and educator, bemoans the current state of mathematics education in the United States. In his lively and poetic essay-turned-book, he grieves for students who are deprived of math’s true beauty, for they are prevented from playing and asking and discovering an imaginative world filled with patterns and questions and possibilities…as Lockhart mentions time and time again, wouldn’t it be awesome if kids loved math, purely because it is fun and beautiful? Shouldn’t life be filled with plenty of fun and beauty?”(more)