Re: Is there really that big of a change in high school geometry teaching in the past 15 years?

William Elliot wrote:
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, rabbits77 wrote:

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.

Welcome to the time lag.

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.

At a $100 per book, schools are induced to make their own texts.

That is, a whole chapter on SSS, a whole chapter on SAS, etc.

Were there any proofs or was it solely constructions?

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?

Oh woe is US if that school is also doing the dummy down dune dance.

A space is to follow "taught" before continuing "(for better ...)".
Otherwise you too are becoming malaised by modern stupt write.

"malaised" is a word? "stupt" is a word? What is "dune dance"?
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