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ERIC Number: EJ491922
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
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Exploratory Geometry--Let the Students Write the Text!
Stallings-Roberts, Virginia
Mathematics Teacher, v87 n6 p403-08 Sep 1994
Describes an exploratory geometry course in which students were challenged to develop their own axiomatic system instead of using a textbook. They developed a Euclidean system and learned to write proofs as a natural consequence of building the system. (13 references) (MKR)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Geometry, Manipulative Materials, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Proof (Mathematics), Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Student Developed Materials, Teacher Developed Materials
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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