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Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless
An easy-to-use guide that takes the fear out of geometry
Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless tackles a subject more than three million students face every year. Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly covering the high school curriculum as well as post secondary courses in geometry.
Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless tackles a subject more than three million students face every year. Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly covering the high school curriculum as well as post secondary courses in geometry.
264 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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October 2, 2020
I hope you are really starting to enjoy math.
No.
Let's look at quadrilaterals...
Let's not.
In my view, math teaching today is at its worst and so is math learning.
Bless the teachers who tried, but they lost me after algebra. I entered my first day of geometry class with visions of greatness. I left gasping for breath. My instructor loved math and loved logic, so she taught us by reading mystery novels and/or riddles for the first part of the class. I do not like mysteries. Never solved one of the riddles, didn't care that Poirot missed his train. The only concept I learned from geometry was to focus on my other skills, such as learning to speak English without a Strine accent. Math was left behind.
A man is looking down from the top of a 120-foot lighthouse. The angle of depression to a boat is 20°. How far away is the boat?
Bob Miller clearly loves math. Bob Miller clearly loves teaching. Bob Miller clearly loves teaching math. I clearly loved Bob Miller's enthusiasm and his hope that I, the reader, would enjoy math. This book is wonderfully sectioned into chapters even I could understand, and everything is spelled out and illustrated. But geometry and I will never be bedfellows. We will never attend the races together, we will never croon True Love on a yacht, and we will never enjoy the joint adventure of finding vinyl Dick Van Dyke LPs.
But Mr. Miller, you sure gave it your best shot.
Book Season = Year Round (ostrich buries head)
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