Ebook: A mathematician's lament: [how school cheats us out of our most fascinating and imaginative art form]

Part I. Lamentation -- Introduction -- Mathematics and Culture -- Mathematics in School -- The Mathematics Curriculum -- High School Geometry -- Instrument of the Devil -- Part II. Exultation.;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.