The Joy of Geometry

A veteran math educator reveals the hidden fascinations of geometry and why this staple of math education is important.

If you remember anything about high school geometry class, it's probably doing proofs. But geometry is more than axioms, postulates, theorems, and proofs. It's the science of beautiful and extraordinary geometric relationships--most of which is lost in high school classrooms where the focus is on the rigor of logically proving those relationships.

This book w…