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The point of the Geometry course in that curriculum is to teach the student how to do proofs. The Geometry itself is secondary.


Unfortunately this is typically done in a counterproductive way.

See http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/TiMER/Schoenfeld%20(1988)%20Good%...


Beliefs 1–4 on page 151 are exactly what I thought about geometry until later in college. Thanks for the article, it's fascinating.




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