A Mathematician's Lament

副标题: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

ISBN: 9781934137178

出版社: Bellevue Literary Press

出版年: 2009-04-01

页数: 140

定价: USD 12.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

“One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen.”—Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR’s Morning Edition 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 Lockhart’s controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike and it will alter the way we think about math forever. Paul Lockhart , has taught mathematics at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz. Since 2000, he has dedicated himself to K-12 level students at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York.

作者简介

作者是一位傑出的數學家，他發願來教中小學的數學，希望呈現給孩子們數學的趣味、和充滿想像力的一面，因為：

數學是一門藝術，重要的是過程，是遊戲，是玩，是去做。

因此他非常批判「死記硬背」、「給答案」、「省略思考過程」的教學方式。

他於2002年寫成本書的初稿，只有薄薄的25頁，然而在史丹佛大學的齊斯．德福林教授的推薦下，於美國數學協會（Mathematical Association of America）的網誌上發布後，在數學社群中引起極大的迴響，因而出版成書。

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