u/BlackCatInHat

This is mentioned in Anne of Ingleside and Rilla of Ingleside, and I’ve never figured out what it meant.

Her problem with geometry begins pretty early - 11 or 12-ish? I always assumed they were teaching how to calculate the area of an oddly-shaped field so you knew how much seed to buy or something like that. I doubt late-19th century rural one-room schools in PEI were teaching adolescents to do proofs. I didn’t learn to do proofs until I was 15. Yet Anne’s struggle with geometry continued at Redmond, where presumably they would have been doing proofs. Maybe LMM struggled with geometry but didn’t remember when she started learning it?