This is a great book to read alongside "Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers".<br><br>What i love about this book is that it brings out that math involves asking "what if" and experimenting with those "what ifs".  I don't know about you but math was presented to me in school as a finite system with only one answer/approach.<br><br>The solution is for schools to create an environment that is conducive to divergent thinking, or as Sir Kem puts it, "the ability to see lots of possible answers to a question, lots of possible ways of interpreting a question". In other words, the author argues that problem-solving skills should be emphasized in math the way they are in other liberal disciplines and he presents various methods that teach you how to do this throughout the book.<br><br>These methods consist of the following:<br><br>1. Develop a mathematical habit<br>2. Become a better pattern detective<br>3. Use probability and experimentation<br>4. Describe and speak in the language of math.<br>5. Tinker<br>6. Invent<br>7. VIsualize<br>8. Guess<br><br>The author presents these methods in layman's terms and even presents simple exercises you can do to start applying them.<br><br>Further, the author brings out how the creative process used to process music/art etc. is the same process used to process mathematics. In fact, some mathematicians have claimed that their critical discoveries came to them while sleeping (similar to a lot of brilliant musicians).<br><br>In other words, everyone has the ability to learn and process mathematics, there isn't some unique aspect/attribute that you need to understand math.<br><br>But ye I would recommend this book to anybody. IT breaks down the flaws in the current American mathematical education system, how to address these flaws, and how you can embrace/lov