Beautiful!  Thank you for making this statement.  Lots of people making decisions in education need to hear this.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jason Axelson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bostonvaulter@gmail.com">bostonvaulter@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">As a somewhat recent high-school graduate (2005) I must say that I don&#39;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.<div>


<br></div><div><font color="#888888">Jason<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:40 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chris@seberino.org" target="_blank">chris@seberino.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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I&#39;m teaching high school math to homeschoolers and I&#39;m looking for how to make<br>
geometry year meaningful.<br>
<br>
I&#39;m having a &quot;crisis of confidence&quot; because from my viewpoint, algebra was 10x<br>
more useful for future math and science work.<br>
<br>
The only thing I can remember that was useful from geometry was a few volume<br>
and area formulas.  That can justify maybe a month but not a whole YEAR of<br>
geometry!?!?<br>
<br>
cs<br>
<br>
P.S. Yes yes I know that geometry is meant to teach logical reasoning.  Maybe<br>
one can get that from chess, debate club and other activities as well if<br>
not better?  People also say geometry is where you learn proofs.  Couldn&#39;t<br>
proofs be just as easily emphasized in all the other math classes?<br>
<br>
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