Beautiful! Thank you for making this statement. Lots of people making decisions in education need to hear this.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jason Axelson <bostonvaul...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > -- "Computer science is the new mathematics." -- Dr. Christos Papadimitriou
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