As a somewhat recent high-school graduate (2005) I must say that I don't think that all the countless proofs we did in geometry helped my logical reasoning that much. I think that programming helped that 100x more than geometry did.
Jason On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:40 PM, <ch...@seberino.org> wrote: > I'm teaching high school math to homeschoolers and I'm looking for how to > make > geometry year meaningful. > > I'm having a "crisis of confidence" because from my viewpoint, algebra was > 10x > more useful for future math and science work. > > The only thing I can remember that was useful from geometry was a few > volume > and area formulas. That can justify maybe a month but not a whole YEAR of > geometry!?!? > > cs > > P.S. Yes yes I know that geometry is meant to teach logical reasoning. > Maybe > one can get that from chess, debate club and other activities as well if > not better? People also say geometry is where you learn proofs. Couldn't > proofs be just as easily emphasized in all the other math classes? > > -- > _______________________________________ > > Christian Seberino, Ph.D. > Email: ch...@seberino.org > _______________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >
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