Helping Students Write Paragraph Proofs in Geometry

1994/10/01 by Joseph L. Brandell
Social Sciences · #Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques

paper · doi:10.5951/mt.87.7.0498

Abstract

The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989) suggests that students should learn to express deductive arguments orally and in sentence form. Writing proofs in paragraph form—hereafter known as paragraph proof —accomplishes this objective.

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