About thirty-five years ago the movement to incorporate geometry into the elementary grades began. To many elementary school teachers, the mention of the word geometry brought back memories of a high school geometry course that dealt with abstraction and proof. The thought of teaching children this geometry was naturally viewed with incredulity.
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