Genius Hour Blogspot #4

I have decided after a week of banging my head against a wall that my original plan was too ambitious. I had hoped to create a set of stand-alone documents that would guide a student though the basics of logic and Euclidean Geometry. However, there is so much I would want to say on each subtopic and to put it all into words would make each document enormous. This surprised me because resources that I used to teach myself these concepts were not so verbose. I eventually realized that since I am a specialist of sorts in this field (my background is in mathematical physics), with more than seven years of university under my belt, I don't need as a complete an explanation to learn about these topics. I already have the foundation to teach myself. However, a grade 9 or 10 student would most likely not have this foundation (not these days anyway), and so a complete, tightly guided explanation would be necessary. This is particularly true with propositional logic, since a misconception in that field can do a lot of damage down the road. Over the course of my GH project, I've been incorporating logic and Euclidean geometry into my private tutoring which has left me with a big pile of lecture notes. I had hoped to turn these notes into a small book of sorts. I have decided instead to make the lecture notes into a set of SmartBoard lessons which I would use if I were to teach this subject to a class. Although I'm making these notes in a way that I would use them, I imagine any teacher may find them a useful starting point should they want to incorporate geometry and logic in their math class.