Read the essay A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart. You can find a digital copy here:
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf. Write an essay of at least
2000 words addressing at least two or more of the following questions.
• In vour experience, is Lockhart correct about the state of mathematics education?
• To what degree have you experienced mathematics as an art?
How does your experience with mathematics education compare to other subjects?
• What factor(s) contribute to joy and passion when learning a subject? What factor(s) detract?
What can be done to mathematics education to fix the problems Lockhart addresses?
• What responses have been published? Do the cognoscenti generally agree or disagree with Lock-
hart?
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