What’s Wrong with Math?

You see, our current system of math education is very efficient at creating math phobia. This systemic math phobia is the elephant in the room. Everyone knows it's there. Everyone knows it shouldn't be there. No one knows how it got there or how to get it to leave. In the end it gets left in the room year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation, because as a whole we haven't seen nor experienced what we are missing. As a whole we don't know what the room looks like without the elephant. Therefore I am writing this book from my corner of the room, to simply tell people about the part of the elephant I see from here, to lend my feeble voice in painting a clearer picture of what it is that we're missing, what it is that we need to do to move the elephant, and a suggestion or two on the ways we might get it done. My only goal is to give whatever I can offer for the future of an elephant-less room for all, and I invite all who are willing to help. Moving this elephant needs an orchestrated effort from a great many people.