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Re: geometry & real life
Posted:
Mar 20, 1995 1:27 AM
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In a previous article, keith@forum.swarthmore.edu (Keith E. Grove) says:
>Dear Geometry Forum Readers,
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>I am a tenth grade geometry student at Dover-Sherborn High School in Dover, MA.
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>I know that I am not interested in any occupation that will involve
>mathematics. Therefore I would like to know why geometry is a required
>course in high school.
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>If I could be convinced of geometry's usefulness to my everyday life, I
>would be more motivated to learn it.
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>Thanks you in advance for your responses.
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>Please post your responses to this bulletin board or to the email address
>below.
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>dshsper2@forum.swarthmore.edu
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Geometry is very useful, isn't it? You can play pool (or is billiard) and
win much money. You can calculate how far it takes to get from one point
to another without using the map's scale.
I don't know. Still in geometry myself (My counselor kept me back a year
when I passed Algebra with fly colors, sort of)
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