Curiouser and Curiouser...Mainstream math education over the last century has concretized an approach to mathematics that is rote, anxiety-producing, and far too focused on outcomes rather than the journey of discovery. In this book, an educator offers an approach to mathematics that advocates getting lost, slowing down, feeling bewildered and disoriented, and even failing. Engaging with math in this way, he argues, can not only accomplish greater buy-in and enjoyment from math learners, but it can also affirm our sense of humanity and wellness overall. He invites the reader to explore his philosophy of mathematics through relating math to other disciplines, and to figures as diverse as MC Escher and Anthony Bourdain. The author also delves into variously complex mathematical problems to offer concrete examples of what doing math differently looks and feels like. Mathematics, he demonstrates, ought to be a site not of stress and anxiety, but of wonder and joy.