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| Topic: | Midsegment of a rectangle? |
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| Subject: | RE: More on What is a Trapezoid |
| Author: | Alan Cooper |
| Date: | Dec 11 2004 |
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> I'd like to hear more about the original discussion
> that I was trying to generate here.
Sorry if I took the discussion "off track"
With regard to the two definitions I don't have much to add myself. But I really
like the philosophy expressed in Susan's "Textbook?" post (which somehow seems
not to be visible in this topic even though it appears to be a direct response
to the same message as this one)
Susan says:
> We used to use the Integrated Mathematics series by McDougall
> Littell, and in Integrated II, this exact question is posed
> to the students! It asks the students to explain why the two
> definitions are different...I usually discuss both definitions
> in class, but use whichever one their text uses just so there
> isn't any confusion.
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