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in grade nine geometry I learned about points, lines, rays, planes, and a parade of polygons, spheres, pyramids, and cones that always left me hungry for ice cream learned how to divide the white page with angles, precise and contained, admired the saucy isosceles angle, fell in love with the acute angle, was never sure about the obtuse angle, always wanted the right angle learned axioms, self-evident truths, and theorems, less evident, but available to proof (and I loved the scent of approval from all that proving)
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Leggo, C. (2012). Grade Nine Geometry. In: Leggo, C. (eds) Sailing in a Concrete Boat. Social Fictions Series, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-955-8_16
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