The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions
Andrew Hacker


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Apr 2018 | The New Press | 9781620973912 | 256pp | 209x139mm | GEN | AUD$32.99, NZD$39.99
Hardback (B401) | Mar 2016 | The New Press | 9781620970683 | 240pp | 209x139mm | GEN | AUD$47.99, NZD$59.99

When Andrew Hacker published an op-ed in the New York Times questioning the requirement of advanced mathematics in schools, it instantly became one of the paper's most widely circulated articles. Why, he wondered, do we inflict algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and even calculus on all young Americans, regardless of their interests and aptitudes? In