Does anyone else here feel this way about mathematics?

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Bertrand Russell

There is always discussion about how math should be taught in grade school. My suggestion is to bring out the beauty in mathematics. There are some very good recreational math problems (not a self-contradiction) that help to do the job. It may even to introduce a little more mathematical abstraction to show how things tie together in math.

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I am waiting for my library to consider purchasing “Math Therapy , by Vanessa V. ”.

If anyone has read it please tell us about it?

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I think I get what Russell was saying.

I think it would take a lot to reach many grade schoolers on that level, but I also think it’s a good idea to try things in that direction and see what can be done.

Certainly in practically any subject, the teacher and their approach make can an enormous difference, and be largely responsible not only for what students do or don’t get out of a class, but how those students relate to the subject in future.

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