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Found 5 comments on The Joy of Mathematics: Discovering Mathematics All Around You:

u/protocol_7 · 2 pointsr/math

You mentioned that you don't see how math classes promote logical reasoning, because they're just rote memorization. That right there is what's wrong with K-12 math education in the States: mathematics is a creative activity that requires all sorts of clever thinking and conceptual understanding, and rote memorization is antithetical to that. (It's like an "art" class that makes students spend all their time painting fences white, or a "poetry" class that consists of nothing but memorizing lists of vocabulary.)

Fortunately, mathematics is usually taught much better in university classes, where you'll see problems that actually require some creative thinking in putting together a solution using broadly applicable techniques and concepts.

Until then, if you want to get a better sense of real mathematics, you might consider taking a look at popular books (not textbooks) on mathematics; a couple ones I recall enjoying are The Joy of Mathematics and The Art of the Infinite. Or, if you want to learn things more directly from a mathematical perspective, you could look at Polya's classic How to Solve It or Lang's Basic Mathematics (which presents basic algebra and geometry in the way mathematicians think about them).

u/barashkukor · 1 pointr/books

The Joy of Mathematics. Heard that this one is pretty good.

u/zostendorf · 1 pointr/askphilosophy

I'm a graduating computer science major and I've always had trouble conceptualizing math. So much so that I grew to hate it. One day a stack of old books was sitting next to the library entrance with a 'FREE' sign and I picked this guy up simply because I identified what I thought was a hilariously ironic title:

The Joy of Mathematics-Discovering Mathematics All Around You

IT CHANGED THE WAY I SEE EVERYTHING.

Without diving too deep into theories and explanations, this book enlightens even the most math-tarded people (i.e. me). It really explores origins of math and the human race's intuition for it.
The aim of the book is not to cover one large fundamental concept, but instead to briefly investigate a few dozen different ideas. Just about every page or so is a completely different concept than the previous or successive one. I still open it to some random page and start reading when I get bored.

I really hope you and your boyfriend take a look at this one. I'm positive you'll find it insanely interesting!

u/lobocop · 1 pointr/math

This was a book I loved as a kid: The joy of mathematics by Theonni Pappas. It has tons of great puzzles, interesting stories.

u/MrsReznor · 1 pointr/TwoXChromosomes

A book that I loved when I was around her age is The Joy of Mathematics