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In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide – a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.

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Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

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Why don’t we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don’t trust them, that we think it’s too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?

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Thinking Quotes by Paul Lockhart

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Why don’t we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don’t trust them, that we think it’s too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?

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