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Topic: Dolciani and SMSG
Replies: 14   Last Post: Sep 18, 2011 6:08 PM

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Domenico Rosa

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Re: Dolciani and SMSG
Posted: Sep 17, 2011 3:32 PM
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I have in fact spent a considerable amount of time documenting how the Dolciani series demolished the college preparatory mathematics curriculum. How much time have you spent on this grim exercise? To get an idea of what happened to Euclidean Geometry see my post at:

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?forumID=206&threadID=482893

On 16 Sept 2011, Guy Brandenburg wrote:

> Oh my god. The table of contents gives away the
> entire evil scheme, eh? I think you need to go into
> more detail than that, dom.
> In fact, I notice that when trying to enlighten us
> hicks to the evil wiles of la Donna Dolciani, you
> almost always ONLY mention or quote the TOC.

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