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The math our children learn in school today is obsolete. Developed for 13th century merchants by Leonardo of Pisa in the year 1202, it was a revolutionary approach based on Arabic arithmetic and algebra. Leonardo sought to replace the slow, cumbersome, and error prone Roman abacus math with his algorithmic math using pen and paper.
What if we reinvented math education? What if we designed a math curriculum to meet the needs of the 21st century and not the 13th century to produce out-of-the-box thinkers? What if we put students into an elevator of choice and not a ladder to climb? What if their lessons were more like science experiments and not mechanical practice to challenge their brains? What if their math assignments asked them to be creative?
