Reading: Lockhart’s lament
Read the couple of pages shared below from the the paper: A Mathematician’s Lament.
There are a few analogies which Paul Lockhart draws w.r.t Math Education.
Which of these make sense to you? What do you agree/disagree with?
What students worked out1
Student 19
As soon as I read the first two lines of the musician’s nightmare, I sort of knew where the story was going. And that is scary, because math and its treatment today feels EXACTLY like that. More than that, it made me uncomfortable to not be able visualize Math as a natural skill because I don’t know how to bring that out.