“His teaching style, I thought at the time, was a window to the past, and very unusual by the early 90s. But If you followed his methods, you learned geometry.”
Things like history, geography and such were taught differently than any mathematics.
You had to follow the equation through to the conclusion and most questions were answered by the time the equation was completed.
Hardheaded me took a while to figure that out. Sounds like you went with the flow and let the process work itself out.
My first lessons were from a great aunt who taught in a one room schoolhouse. Talk about a window into the past!
Her methods were probably very similar to his.
“My first lessons were from a great aunt who taught in a one room schoolhouse.”
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My mother taught in a one room schoolhouse in Canada——she LOVED “working with figures”,as she called it.
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