Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00HQA0NMM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 343 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"It was interesting and fun and really made me think about math differently" according to James W. Killman. This book changed my life-no kidding. It was interesting and fun and really made me think about math differently, especially about teaching and approaching math as a puzzle to enjoy.]. Five Stars Biped The Kaplans write hugely entertaining and enlightening books on math.. I highly recommend this book Erik Medina I highly recommend this book. I admit I haven’t personally implemented all of their ideas into the classroom, but their philosophy that mathematics (and perhaps any subject for that matter) is best learned through discovery of the concepts, with process rather than the completion of a checklist of covered facts the goal, struck a chord with me. They back up this philosophy with many anecdotes; the book has a very personal tone to it. As the Kaplans state in the b
Written with the same wit and clarity that made Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is an international best seller, Out of the Labyrinth offers an engaging and practical guide for parents and educators, and a delight for anyone interested in sharing the pleasures of mathematics. Instead, they argue, math should be taught as the highest form of intellectual play, an endeavor to be explored and enjoyed by children (or adults) of any age. Who hasn't feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? Now, in Out of the Labyrinth, Robert and Ellen Kaplan - the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994 - reveal th