Carolyn Fox

Thanks for these suggestions. I am familiar with some of them (i.e. Life of Fred and Horrible books). I wasn't with some of them (i.e. Paul Lockhart's article or geogebra), but have since become familiar with them. I do appreciate it.

As an update, since I wrote this article, I read Ian Stewart's book, Nature's Numbers. He, too, advocates visual mathematics and a new way of doing mathematics that combines structure and order with chaos theory.

Totally agree with that one. They're Artemis Fowls in the making. I used to teach those troublemakers who were poor, disillusioned but quite bright. They're criminals in the making and it frustrates me when we neglect them in our public schools instead of using their potential hacking skills to benefit them and society.