HSKLNG Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Is it possible to use this book/s as spine to teach geometry? Have any one here used it? How do you prepared lessons plans? How do you teach with this book? Help? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Is it possible to use this book/s as spine to teach geometry? Well, anything is possible, but I suspect that few modern students go this route. Bear in mind that there is more to Euclid than geometry (books 7, 8, 9 deal with number theory). Also, today's students use Cartesian coordinates--a tool that was not developed until the 17th century. This is not to say that one cannot learn from Euclid today. After finishing our geometry text (we used Dressler's Geometry from the early '70's), my son did some reading from Euclid to see appreciate the Greek method of proof. I also had him read Experiments in Topology by Stephen Barr (Dover). While this is more of a general/popular math book than a text, it blew his mind. :D Best, Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 And we use Benno Artmann's Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics as a guide. We have spent some time working through proposition by proposition, and we've jumped around a bit when there was something particular I wanted to hit... But this is in addition to using NEM. I'm not sure I'd use it as my only geometry text -- a lot has changed in two thousand years! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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