3 ms·
At least at my school, there was a special geometry class that included proofs ("formal geometry"). Other than the handful of few people who bothered to take th
by cozzyd 5y ago
At least at my school, there was a special geometry class that included proofs ("formal geometry"). Other than the handful of few people who bothered to take that class, there was very little way in the way of proofs in the geometry class that 98% of people took (ok, I tested out of geometry so I don't really know what was in the curriculum).
- cperciva 5y agoThis makes me sad. High school Geometry without proofs is indeed not worth keeping. (Except maybe as a two week discussion of triangles and right angles so that students understand what they are when they hit trig.)
- andrewprock 5y agoI have to agree wholeheartedly. The actual content in a classical geometry class is mostly related to logic; axiom, proof, theorem, inference, etc. If you remove all of that, you can embed actual geometric content into other classes as you go, much like probability and statistics is currently integrated across multiple years.