Beginning Geometry and College Entrance

Abstract

In 1923 the College Entrance Examination Board published its Document 108 embodying a detailed statement of the revised requirements in plane and solid geometry. Those who were charged with the preparatjon cf this document gave heed to a suggestion of the National Committee on Mathematical Requirements1 with respect to the desirability of introducing the more elementary notions of solid geometry in connection with related ideas of plane geometry, and prepared accordingly the syllabus for Geometry cd, the so-called Minor Requirement in Plane and Solid Geometry. Document 108 states that “this requirement is designed to cover the most important parts of plane and solid geometry, in such a way that the preparation for it can be completed in the time usually devoted to the standard requirement in plane geometry,” i.e., one year.