Melissa

Hi -

I never post but enjoy getting insight from the posts in this Group.

I think it was in this Group about a month or so ago that someone posted a wonderful article about math - it was a math scholar being "interviewed" about how the beauty of math is lost in the way public schools teach math.

I think it was from the AMA but I searched their site and couldn't find it.

Anyway, if it was someone here that posted that link - could you please post it again?

Many thanks.

--Melissa

Joyce Fetteroll

On Oct 11, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Melissa wrote:

> I think it was in this Group about a month or so ago that someone
> posted a wonderful article about math - it was a math scholar being
> "interviewed" about how the beauty of math is lost in the way
> public schools teach math.


Here you go:

The Mathematician's Lament
http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

I have it linked on the first math page on my site:

http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/

which might be easier for people to remember that the above.

Joyce

Melissa

Thank you Joyce!! I have been going crazy trying to find this - not to mention spending way too much time on the maa.org web site (I remembered that much).

--Melissa

--- In [email protected], Joyce Fetteroll <jfetteroll@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Melissa wrote:
>
> > I think it was in this Group about a month or so ago that someone
> > posted a wonderful article about math - it was a math scholar being
> > "interviewed" about how the beauty of math is lost in the way
> > public schools teach math.
>
>
> Here you go:
>
> The Mathematician's Lament
> http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
>
> I have it linked on the first math page on my site:
>
> http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/
>
> which might be easier for people to remember that the above.
>
> Joyce
>