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		baldfat on Sept 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014) We teach mathematics backwards and in the wrong order and we push students through things they have not mastered. "A Mathematician’s Lament" by Paul Lockhart https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.... BOOK published in 2009 https://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Lament-School-Fascinat...

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