PHILOSOPHY
We owe the structure of our curriculum to the pioneering work of Alfred North Whitehead (1920s) who warned that if we failed to pay attention to the stage of Romance our student's learning would come to naught. And to the insights of John Dewey (1030s) who emphasized the significance of the students' "Experience" in their learning. And finally to Seymour Papert (1970's) who wanted his students to be sculptors, working together to perfect their creations.
Beauty
We are attracted to sweetness and for the same reason we are attracted to beauty—in the first case we needed it to survive, in the second case we need it to thrive. In this remarkable universe of ours, the order and chaos of beauty is a reliable guide to truth.
Hands-On
We learn by taking things apart, seeing how the pieces work and interact and then putting them back together, sometimes in a new way. We regard mathematics as the study of structure, and this process is exactly how we gain understanding.
Integrity
Integrity is about wholeness. Too much of our time in math class is spent working with fragments. What we all need are whole experiences.
