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Re:Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014) by baldfat on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:42AM (#15176295)
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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