|  | Authors: Ray C. Jurgensen, Richard G. Brown, John W. Jurgensen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin McDougal Littell
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 8935
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 740
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0395977274
Dewey Decimal Number: 516
EAN: 9780395977279
ASIN: 0395977274
Publication Date: January 2000
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 Geometry isn't a necessary course August 12, 2005
Hector Gonsalezes (San Francisco, CA)
22 out of 36 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.
Math was never so annoying... July 31, 2005
15 out of 26 found this review helpful
I don't believe there is anything wrong with the subject of Geometry. However, the author of this textbook is extremely stupid. Firstly, there are only about 3 examples per section for a total set of up to 40 problems. The examples are also easy problems. However, I often got lost on the harder problems because there were no examples! The problems in this textbook also take forever (and I mean FOREVER), because each problem has a part a, b, c, d, e, f, and almost the entire alphabet! We also don't need an author using complicated vocabulary in this textbook. I mean, we still get the concept, don't we? Just to inform everyone, this book will cost you $80 of a nightmare when you see some of the problems like this: 1. a. If Bob walked 3 km, and Lucy walked 6 km, and they walked in inverse order, how far was the total kilometers of their walking?
b. Given: Triangle ABC ~ Triangle DEF Prove: Leg squared equals side cubed.
c. What is this all about?
d. How do you know?
e. Justify your answer for part (a).
f. You're still not done!!!
 I tutor and this book is the best March 5, 2005
M. Michel
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
I tutor geometry and am happy to find most california high school students use this book. It is clear and staight forward and I have not seen a better book.
 Good addition to any course February 7, 2005
harryinidaho (Coeur d'Alene, ID)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
We used this book throughout last year in geometry and I found it to be helpful in having plenty of sample problems of how to use the things we learned in class. The problem some of the previous reviewers had, of not being able to understand, have a teacher issue, not a book issue. If the teacher taught instead of the book they would be fine.
horrible book August 18, 2004
cat_cattus
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
it teaches some wierd geometry where the actual theorems have been claimed as postulates. if you'll take a look on page 692 where all "postulates" are listed you'll find that many of them are actually theorems (for examples, "postulates" 10-14 are theorems and have proof based on real axioms which for some wierd reason are not listed in this book at all!)
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