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The design of geometry teaching: learning from the geometry textbooks of Godfrey and Siddons

The design of geometry teaching: learning from the geometry textbooks of Godfrey and Siddons
The design of geometry teaching: learning from the geometry textbooks of Godfrey and Siddons
Deciding how to teach geometry remains a demanding task with one of major arguments being about how to combine the intuitive and deductive aspects of geometry into an effective teaching design. In order to try to obtain an insight into tackling this issue, this paper reports an analysis of innovative geometry textbooks which were published in the early part of the 20th Century, a time when significant efforts were being made to improve the teaching and learning of geometry. The analysis suggests that the notion of the ‘geometrical eye’, the ability to see geometrical properties detach themselves from a figure, might be a potent tool for building effectively on geometrical intuition so as to provide a bridge into deductive geometry.
pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, learning, geometry, mathematics, England, geometric, geometrical, textbook, deductive reasoning, proof, conjecturing, inductive reasoning, school, mathematical, textbooks, Godfrey, Siddons
1463-6840
13-18
Fujita, Taro
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Jones, Keith
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Fujita, Taro
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Jones, Keith
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Fujita, Taro and Jones, Keith (2002) The design of geometry teaching: learning from the geometry textbooks of Godfrey and Siddons. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 22 (2), 13-18.

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Deciding how to teach geometry remains a demanding task with one of major arguments being about how to combine the intuitive and deductive aspects of geometry into an effective teaching design. In order to try to obtain an insight into tackling this issue, this paper reports an analysis of innovative geometry textbooks which were published in the early part of the 20th Century, a time when significant efforts were being made to improve the teaching and learning of geometry. The analysis suggests that the notion of the ‘geometrical eye’, the ability to see geometrical properties detach themselves from a figure, might be a potent tool for building effectively on geometrical intuition so as to provide a bridge into deductive geometry.

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Published date: 2002
Keywords: pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, learning, geometry, mathematics, England, geometric, geometrical, textbook, deductive reasoning, proof, conjecturing, inductive reasoning, school, mathematical, textbooks, Godfrey, Siddons
Organisations: Mathematics, Science & Health Education

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Local EPrints ID: 41292
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/41292
ISSN: 1463-6840
PURE UUID: 9523f310-697b-4d67-87e3-ecce64a21550
ORCID for Keith Jones: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3677-8802

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Date deposited: 15 Aug 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 08:27

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Author: Taro Fujita
Author: Keith Jones ORCID iD

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