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 The standard American math curriculum is anything but inspiring. Based onmemorization and timed tests, it encourages boredom and anxiety. A lucky fewstudents get the inspiration and motivation required to enjoy and excel in mathfrom a parent or teacher. The rest muddle through, often quitting at the firstopportunity. How can we disrupt this depressing state of affairs?

Look at Math Instruction Through a Different Lens

By exploring math instruction through the lens of other subjects, we can start to see why the way it’s usually taught fails to excite most students. What if we taught music the way we teach math? Students would learn to read and write music on blank sheets of staff paper. They’d learn all about music theory, but they’d never play an instrument or listen to music. They’d miss the joy of making sound or keeping a beat, the emotion of expressing oneself or getting wrapped up in a melody. 

What if we taught art the way we teach math? Instead of allowing students to paint, they would learn color theory, the ins and outs of different paint brushes and types of paint, and the names and accomplishments of a few great but dead artists. They would learn how to paint by numbers in high school, but they would never be encouraged to express themselves through painting on a blank canvas—or even scribbling with crayons on printer paper—until graduate school. Most students don’t make it that far.

“Sadly, our present system of mathematics education is precisely this kind of nightmare,” writes Paul Lockhart in his essay “A Mathematician’s Lament.” “In fact, 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 as good a job as is currently being done—I simply wouldn’t have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.”

Fortunately, Lockhart and other math teachers have some ideas about how to change things.

Don’t Try to Reform Math Education—Scrap It

 

 

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