Synopsis
Book by Stone John Charles Millis James Franklin
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The Stone-Millis Geometry, published in 1910, was a pioneer in its field, being the first of the series of American textbooks on geometry which of recent years have attempted in various ways to modernize the teaching of the subject. It marked, in fact, a wide departure from the traditional Greek geometry, after which textbooks for secondary schools had for generations been patterned. From the start, the text met with remarkable success. The educational ideals which it embodied are now national ideals, and are summarized in the Report of the National Committee Of Fifteen on the teaching of geometry.
The present volume, by the same authors, is a thorough revision of that text. It has been prepared in the attempt to produce a text which shall preserve the distinctive features of the older book, but which, if possible, shall be more simple, practical, and teachable.
The main features of the older book, which have been preserved in the present volume, are:
(1) A concrete approach to the subject, developing a body of experience and imagery as a basis of formal geometry, the latter not being introduced until need for it is felt.
(2) A simplifying of the subject by the elimination of unnecessary material, and by the assumption of many of the simpler principles of geometry of which the student does not feel the need of proof.
(3) An attempt to motivate the teaching of geometry in the secondary school, and to make it function in the life of the student, by utilizing as exercises a large number of applied problems of geometry such as are actually encountered in real life.
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Category: Mathematics - Geometry
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