The Forum: What Should Become of the High School Geometry Course?: An Improved Year of Geometry

Geometry in secondary schools has evolved during the last few years so that the use of coordinates has become respectable and the use of vectors is beginning to gain acceptance. There still remains the basic problem of finding sufficient time to consider the topics from the traditional full year of plane geometry, an introduction to the geometry of three space, an introduction to coordinate methods of proof, and an introduction to vector methods of proof. There are also suggestions that many traditional topics of geometry be jettisoned and that other new approaches to geometry be included.