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Geometry DeMYSTiFieD
An all-new angle to learning geometry!
Updated with all-new quizzes and test questions, and a completely refreshed design, Geometry Demystified, Second Edition makes it easy to learn or recall basic geometry. You can use the book as a supplemental classroom text or as a self-contained course without an instructor. Worked-out problems and solutions with practical themes are included.
The book contains 11 chapters in two parts. Each chapter ends with a multiple-choice quiz. Each part ends with a multiple-choice test. A comprehensive multiple-choice final exam concludes the course. This hands-on guide helps you to: understand angle measurement and expression; grasp the relationships between angles and distances; calculate perimeters, areas, and volumes; read maps and charts; use coordinate systems in two and three dimensions; construct geometric figures with a compass and straight edge; learn the fundamentals of vectors; improve spatial perception; envision space of more than three dimensions.
Geometry Demystified, Second Edition features:
Chapter-opening objectives offering insight into what you’re going to learn in each step Questions at the end of every chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses “Still Struggling?” icon providing specific recommendations for those having difficulty with certain subtopics A final exam for overall self-assessment “Curriculum Tree” that shows how the topic covered in the book fits into a larger curriculum SI units throughoutHard stuff made easy!
Some Basic Rules; Triangles; Quadrilaterals; Other Plane Figures; Compass and Straight Edge; The Cartesian Plane; An Expanded Set of Rules; Surface Area and Volume; Vectors and Cartesian Three-space; Alternative Coordinates; Hyperspace and Warped Space
- GenresMathematicsEducation
416 pages, Paperback
First published June 27, 2003
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June 8, 2017
Rather difficult but with exercises, not really a refresher.
August 21, 2020
Was hard to understand and I am generally good at Math such as Algebra and Stats
December 13, 2020
Fun review.
June 18, 2012
The Situation:
Preparing to take the GRE. I hadn't done math in four years and I hadn't been good at math even when I was taking it.
The First Impression:
In the introduction the book says that it doesn't have a lot of "proofs," a.k.a. examples. That alone was enough to make me nearly return the book. If a book is supposed to be targeted to people struggling with geometry/math, I'd think the more examples the better.
The Test:
After deciding that I needed to review some stuff about triangles, I opened the book. I learned the Pythagorean Theoream as being A^2 + B^2 = C^2, but this book showed some diagram and said to use something like S^2 + T^2 = U^2. I know nothing really changed, and that the result is the same, but was it necessary to change the letters? That won't help the people that are even more easily confused then me, and I know such people exist.
On the next page it had the formula of the area of a triangle as being A = BH/2. I was taught A = 0.5BH. Again, I know it's just written slightly different, and that the answer is the same, but my grasp of math is tentative at best, so even little things like that are likely to confuse me.
To avoid potentially getting confused, I didn't look through this whole book, so I don't know what the rest of it is like. I just know that it wasn't for me.
Preparing to take the GRE. I hadn't done math in four years and I hadn't been good at math even when I was taking it.
The First Impression:
In the introduction the book says that it doesn't have a lot of "proofs," a.k.a. examples. That alone was enough to make me nearly return the book. If a book is supposed to be targeted to people struggling with geometry/math, I'd think the more examples the better.
The Test:
After deciding that I needed to review some stuff about triangles, I opened the book. I learned the Pythagorean Theoream as being A^2 + B^2 = C^2, but this book showed some diagram and said to use something like S^2 + T^2 = U^2. I know nothing really changed, and that the result is the same, but was it necessary to change the letters? That won't help the people that are even more easily confused then me, and I know such people exist.
On the next page it had the formula of the area of a triangle as being A = BH/2. I was taught A = 0.5BH. Again, I know it's just written slightly different, and that the answer is the same, but my grasp of math is tentative at best, so even little things like that are likely to confuse me.
To avoid potentially getting confused, I didn't look through this whole book, so I don't know what the rest of it is like. I just know that it wasn't for me.
July 19, 2014
this book helped my son with his school work immensely.
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