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 Big disappointment January 5, 2006
Edward O. Bell
11 out of 26 found this review helpful
My fifteen year old is using this book in LAUSD high school so I was confident that a book by an old Exeter professor would be more than adequate. I was wrong. Had Brown walked into an Exeter classroom with this book thirty-five years ago we would have nailed him spread eagle to a Harkness table. I bought my kid a copy of Weeks and Atkins, the book used by my prep school teacher Arthur Weeks and Brown himself when he taught at Exeter.
this is the worst November 17, 2005
12 out of 25 found this review helpful
this is the worst math book ive ever tried to use.... every single assignment i dont understand until 3 days after... this book is so confusing its not even funny.
:( and i used to think math was fun
o my gosh November 17, 2005
9 out of 22 found this review helpful
THIS ISNT EVEN FUNNY! i swear... every other problem is answered in the back of the book, (the odd ones) and its like i have to search back there every time... most of the time i cant even finish the problem. this book is so confusing, i would pay $500 for a new one... this SUCKS
This book is awful October 7, 2005
Loves to Read (Fremont, CA)
15 out of 23 found this review helpful
I tutor and this is the worst Geometry textbook I've had to use. Geometry is a new branch of mathematics to most students and can be difficult to comprehend. This book only makes it worse. The lack of examples and clear explanation is very frustrating. I empathize with any student forced to endure this text.
Geometry isn't a necessary course August 12, 2005
Hector Gonsalezes (San Francisco, CA)
23 out of 37 found this review helpful
i've about had it with this textbook. i've been teaching high school geometry for the past 12 years and i just don't understand why most high schools use this book. first off, the author does a terrible job of explaining new theorems and proofs, and cannot convey the concept to the student. i've had my students complain to me numerous times about how this book is unclear for exercises, and believe me, i teach some soon to be national merit scholars. the worst thing in this book is the fact that problems go on FOREVER. what i mean by this is that almost every problem has an a, b, c, d, e, and f to them. that means when i assign problems 1-11 odd for homework, it will take my students about 2 hours to do it. forget it, whoever will buy this textbook is simply out of their mind. instead, i like to teach geometry's theorems, postulates, proofs, and reasoning online at [...] or geometry the easy way, a terrific study guide.
The last thing i'd like to say is that there is some false information in this textbook. if you would take a look at chapter 14, transformations, it is stated on page 602 that an isometry is a conic mapping. that is absolutely false; the entire book is a joke. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS TEXTBOOK, I REPEAT: DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS LIE.
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