Measurement

Name: Measurement
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ISBN: 9780674057555

ISBN-10: 0674057554

ISBN-13: 9780674057555

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Lockhart

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For seven years, Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K–12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them to math the wrong way. Here Lockhart offers the positive side of the math education story by showing us how math should be done. Measurement offers a permanent solution to math phobia by introducing us to mathematics as an artful way of thinking and living.In conversational prose that conveys his passion for the subject, Lockhart makes mathematics accessible without…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/25/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Reality and Imagination


On Problems



Size and Shape


In which we begin our investigation of abstract geometrical figures. Symmetrical tiling and angle measurement. Scaling and proportion. Length, area, and volume. The method of exhaustion and its consequences. Polygons and trigonometry. Conic sections and projective geometry. Mechanical curves.



Time and Space


Containing some thoughts on mathematical motion. Coordinate systems and dimension. Motion as a numerical relationship. Vector representation and mechanical relativity. The measurement of velocity. The differential calculus and its myriad uses. Some final words of encouragement to the reader.


Acknowledgments


Index