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To Love Math, Kids Should Start Older And Encounter Its Beauty “When are we ever going to use this?” Every math teacher (and every parent who has helped his child learn math) has heard this question more times than he cares to remember. In a new book out from Encounter in July, J. Jacob Tawney says we have been giving the wrong answer. Teachers often defend the mental strain required of math students by pointing to the ubiquity of math in our lives. They say things like, “You won’t always have a calculator and you’ll need to know how to do this,” or describe the high pay of careers in STEM fields. Not only are these answers completely unsatisfying to most students, Tawney says they undermine mathematics itself. In Another Sort of Mathematics: Selected Proofs Necessary to Acquire a True Education in Mathematics, Tawney says we need to reshape how we think about math and how we teach it. Math is something to be experienced, wondered at, pondered, and enjoyed. It is not a tool to be mastered that will make you rich or a box to check for college admissions. The first few chapters give a deeply philosophical defense of mathematics as worth studying for its own sake. But, like the rest of the book, it is written with a clarity and simplicity that makes
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