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We argue for pedagogical reasons that the dot and cross products should be defined by their geometric properties, from which algebraic representations can be derived, rather than the other way around.
This article is given in two forms.
Tevian Dray and Corinne A. Manogue, "The Geometry of Dot and Cross Products," Loci (June 2006)
Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications