Yes-- and that Holt product is not alone in this respect. The Pearson product that my own child used for Geometry similarly required not ONE deductive proof.
My husband and I were:
a) appalled (seriously?? how can this even qualify as basic Geometry without this piece??) and,
b) irked (this was the bit of math education that revealed the sheer beauty of higher mathematics and tethered it to the Socratic method and the ancient Greeks and Arabic traditions of learning... why... why... why...)
in pretty much equal measure.
We had her do a few anyway, just because we personally felt so strongly about the whole thing.
As it turns out, my daughter's school is more "rigorous" (grinding my teeth when I hear this word now... This word... I do not think it means... what you think it means...) than most, since they at least did do some "proofs" under the standard that Val cites above... they FILLED IN THE BLANKS IN A PRECONSTRUCTED PROOF. With memorized theorems. Yup. Fill.in.the.blank. = "writing" evidently.
