Measurement

Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us...

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Main Author Lockhart, Paul
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass Harvard University Press 2012
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Edition1
Subjects
Geometry
Mathematical notation
Mathematics
MATHEMATICS / Measurement
Mathematik
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ISBN9780674057555
0674057554
DOI10.4159/harvard.9780674067349

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Summary:Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living.
Bibliography:Includes index
ISBN:9780674057555
0674057554
DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674067349