A friend of mine sent me this, written by Paul Lockhart. I don’t have time to read it in its entirety at the moment - but I have read sufficient of it to know that I do want to read it.
Posting here and a couple of other places to keep it top of mind.
The first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art. The difference between math and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognize it as such.
Part of the problem is that nobody has the faintest idea what it is that mathematicians do.
... Paul Lockhart
I will come back to it at some point.