The Math Student’s Declaration of
Independence
When in the
course of human events, it becomes necessary for students to dissolve their
dependence on finger counting and multiplication tables and to assume among the
powers of math, the separate and equal necessity to which the Laws of
Pythagorean and of Euclid entitle them, that they should declare the causes
which impel them to learn Geometry.
We hold
these definitions, axioms and postulates, truths to be self- evident that not
all proofs are created equal but are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
rights of students to use all necessary and sufficient tools and techniques to
solve, that among these are if/then conditional statements, if and only if
bi-conditional statements, 2 column proofs, paragraph proofs, indirect proofs, sound
and logical deductive reasoning, and the use of various and sundry previously
proven theorems, corollaries, and converses.
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