Written over 2000 years ago, The Elements is an achievement of historical significance, possessing a clarity, rigor and superior organization that set the standard for the axiomatic development of every field of study. No other mathematics book has been published as many times or read by as many people, spanning multiple millennia, continents and languages. […]

K-12 teachers shape the public view of mathematics.  They are the first representatives of the math community.  If we want the public and our future students to understand what math is really like, we need teachers who have acquired mathematical practices: habits, values, and characteristics that enable them to independently generate and access mathematical knowledge, […]

In the GeT course that I teach, we build Euclidean geometry from the ground up in the spirit of Euclid’s Elements. There is a strong emphasis on the axiomatic method which aims to give students a sense of the logical foundations of mathematics. The approach lends itself to a discussion of the nature of mathematics. The […]