num_pages: 140
description: 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 Lockharts controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike and it will alter the way we think about math forever.
language: English
title: A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
publisher: Bellevue Literary Press