Lockhart's Mathmatician's Lament, Math's should be treated as Art and the 'dangerous idea' that Zero is

I have a problem with how maths is being taught to our kids.

The best description of the problem I've read is Lockhart's Mathmatician's Lament since it really touches on the fundamental problem that we (as a society) have created:

Maths should be taught as Art, just like Music or Painting , instead of the current 'force feed abstract non-real-work complex set of instructions and concepts'

If you have not read his amazing paper (and you can just start with the first 10 or so pages), do it NOW since it might change how to think about Maths and how they are taught in school.