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Making Quotes by Paul Lockhart
- Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We…
- No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're…
- Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students…
- If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do…
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