Join us at the National Museum of Mathematics for a debate: Is high school math serving society? Can it? Does it? Should it?

The U.S. requires its students to take a full menu of mathematics — one size for all — with no alternatives or exemptions.  Colleges set similar hurdles.  Author and professor of political science and mathematics Andrew Hacker asks one simple question: Why?

James Tanton, mathematics educator, consultant, author, and the Mathematical Association of America's mathematician-at-large, responds with his own question: Are people missing the point of what current high school mathematics is actually about?

Come listen as two of the nation's most prominent voices on math education wrangle over its goals for America's future, in a discussion moderated by John Ewing, President of Math for America.

The Math Myth will be available for purchase.