Exercise Manuals: Geometry

Excerpt from Exercise Manuals: Geometry

The aim of wisely-directed mathematical teaching is to cultivate the reasoning faculty, not the memory; and the true test of mathematical training is the power which the learner has acquired over original problems.

This truth is very generally recognized in teaching Arithmetic and Algebra, but very generally ignored in teaching Geometry. There are, however, many signs that a change in the method of teaching Geometry is taking place in this country. Most of the recent text-books of Geometry contain exercises designed to stimulate original thought; most papers now set in this subject for admission to college require more or less original work; and intelligent teachers are demanding a collection of suitable geometrical exercises.

The present work has been prepared to meet this demand, with the hope that it will promote a much needed reform. It is the first work in the English language, so far as the authors know, in which the subject of geometrical exercises is systematically treated. The materials for the work have been drawn chiefly from French and German sources. The arrangement and mode of treatment are such as seem best adapted to meet the wants of American schools.

It is not intended that each student should try to work every exercise in the book, but the teacher should assign particular problems to separate students, selecting them with special reference to the capacity and skill of each pupil.

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