Why Teach Mathematics? - A Focus on General Education (Paperback, 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2004)

In this book, the author discusses a modern concept of general education that then helps to clarify both curricular and pedagogical deficits involved in conventional mathematics instruction. It provides an outline of an alternative mathematics instruction that can help to realize a general education and presents detailed arguments for seven interconnected objectives of a school system aiming at general education.