Is there really that big of a change in high school geometry teaching in the past 15 years?
- From: rabbits77 <rabbits77@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:33:47 -0500
I recently started to tutor a HS sophmore taking Geometry. I have not
looked at HS geometry since I myself was in HS well over 15 years ago.
I remember pretty much classic Euclidean geometry, let's call it
"postulates and proofs".
What is interesting is that I went to a very bad public HS in another state and would have expected something more rigorous from this course
since he is going to a prominent public high school in a prestigious
community.
What this student showed me is a very far cry from those days!
While I remember a text that more or less mirrored Euclid's Elements
this student didn't even have a text but a series of photocopied course
materials that seemed to break the material down to a very very fine
grain. That is, a whole chapter on SSS, a whole chapter on SAS, etc.
I guess I can't say that this is bad...I would not have minded such a
treatment of the material back when I was in HS but does this represent
a real shift in how the subject is taught(for better or worse?) or just
particular to this school?
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