For those who would like their concept of maths and learning turned upside down.
26 pages, funny bits, more truth about the state of maths education worldwide (not just the US although he is in the US) than you can poke a stick at.
‘This is intimately connected to what I call the “ladder myth”— the idea that mathematics can be arranged as a sequence of “subjects” each being in some way more advanced, or “higher” than the previous. The effect is to make school mathematics into a race— some students are “ahead” of others, and parents worry that their child is “falling behind.” And where exactly does this race lead? What is waiting at the finish line? It’s a sad race to nowhere. In the end you’ve been cheated out of a mathematical education, and you don’t even know it.’
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