Lockhart's Lament (A Mathematician's Lament)

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I will post a link below to this PDF written by Paul Lockhart due to the length of it (25 pages). Also see his book.

Paul is a mathematics teacher at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York. 

His article has been circulating through parts of the mathematics and math ed communities ever since, but he never published it. Mathematical Association of America MAA Online states "It is, quite frankly, one of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen."

http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf