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Summary: A terrible textbook
Review: I don't know who would waste their money on such a horrilbe text book. I'm currently using this book right now for Geometry and I never experince such a bad textbook. This book is hard to understand and it's also usless to use this book if you are a "learn it yourself type of person." I rate this book an "F" and I wouldn't recommended this textbook to a genius, that's how horrible it is!
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Summary: I HATE THIS BOOK!!!!
Review: OMG! This book was so complicated to understand. They expect you to know everything. Because of this mindless crap, I failed Geometry and had to take the regular one. And the worst part is that they don't include enough examples to explain how to work the problem. I wouldn't recommend this God forsaken piece of crap to anyone who wants to do good in Geometry.
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Summary: Terrible text
Review: This book and its inductive approach is not adequate at all. I was in Geometry last year in high school and this book was used as our core curriculum. Several times throughout the year we had students become frustrated with the inductive learning concept and i myself found it overly difficult to learn this way. The book provides few if any answers in the back of the book and that may seem like a good thing at first because we can't copy our homework from it, however if you are interested in learning whether or not your answer is correct this provides no help at all. It is very hard to relearn concepts that you learned wrong and not having access to the answers causes you to assume you are correct and the measly 45 minutes you have in class the next day is not even close to enough time to figure out why you are wrong. This method causes the teacher to spend tons of time every day explaining things that may only be misunderstood by one or two kids. This as many teachers know causes kids that grasp the concept to goof off and lose concentration. If your administration is considering using this book for the upcoming year, I urge you to do everything you can to pursuade them to buy a more direct and deductive book.
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Summary: good resource for geometry teachers
Review: This book is appropriate for highly motivated middle school students whe have studied algebra in the seventh grade. The text uses a guided exploration approach to discovering the facts of geometry. For students who take any pleasure in math, this book can be fun. It is attuned to the 13 year old mind. Proof is introduced in a systematic way in the last two chapters.The teacher must compensate for the fact that the book is not self-contained and is not useful as a reference (no glossary for example). Students must develop a notebook to organize what they learn and for future reference. Students who are left on their own to "construct" their knowledge of geometry through group activities and reflection could find it very tedious. The teacher has to be both a "sage on the stage" as well as a "guide on the side". The book would not be appropriate at the high school level unless aggressively supplemented with a systematic treatment of Euclidean synthetic geometry. Some high school students would find its comic book style childish and unappealing. I would recommend the book to math teachers and those studying to teach math as a rich source of ideas, activities and problems.
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Summary: A terrible textbook
Review: Whoever wrote this book has a great idea in having students actually working things out to find solutions, but to expect students to discover in an hour what geniuses discovered after many years is unrealistic. There are little to no examples, no glossary, and the hints are useless in helping the student understand the concept. All in all, a very poor book.
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