This connection between mathematics education and music education has been made several times, especially in mathematics education circles. Paul Lockhart’s famous Mathematician’s Lament starts with an analogy between math education and music education. We would be appalled if music students weren’t allowed touch their instruments until they had been through years of training in how to write sheet music, but Lockhart and many others fear that this is how we approach math education.
Read the full post at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
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