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Of all the decisions one must make in a curriculum development project with respect to choice of content usually the most controversial and least defensible is the decision about geometry. Pressures shaping such decisions in our time range from “Euclid is dead; teach them linear algebra”, to “Teach them a rigorous Euclidean geometry with Euclid’s deficiencies corrected”.
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The CSMP Staff. (1971). The CSMP Development of Geometry. In: Steiner, HG. (eds) The Teaching of Geometry at the Pre-College Level. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5896-3_2
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