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THE appearance of these two little books shows that practical teachers have not yet agreed upon the best method of teaching elementary geometry. That this should be so is by no means a matter for regret; in the course of the controversy each party learns something from the criticism of the other; examination papers tend to become less stereotyped, and better adapted to test the student's real knowledge of the subject; while an intelligent teacher is more and more able to assert his right of freedom in giving geometrical instruction according to the method which, after a fair trial, he finds to be most efficient.
Geometry for Beginners.
By G. M. Minchin Pp. xii + 102. (Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1898.)
Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books I. and II.
Edited for the use of Schools, by Charles Smith Sophie Bryant Pp. viii + 160. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.)
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M., G. Geometry for Beginners Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books I and II. Nature 57, 433–434 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057433a0
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