Everything You Need to Ace Geometry in One Big Fat Notebook

Everything You Need...in One Big Fat Notebook

by Christy Needham

Geometry? No problem! 

This  Big Fat Notebook  covers everything you need to know during a year of high school geometry class, breaking down one big bad subject into accessible units. Learn to study better and get better grades using mnemonic devices, definitions, diagrams, educational doodles, and quizzes to recap it all. 

Featuring: 
Logic and reasoning
Parallel lines
Triangles and congruence 
Trapezoids and kites
Ratio and proportion 
The pythagorean theorem 
The fundamentals of circles 
Area
Volume of prisms and cylinders 
And more 

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction, Science, Textbooks, Education

624 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2020

Reviews

[Lara]

pretty easy to follow and understand even when youre dumb asf

[Fotis Koutoulakis]

Loved this one! It looks like a children's book, but it's actually surprisingly robust in terms of material and pacing. It also has a number of visuals that help build intuition - for instance, did you know that a circle's area is πr^2 because when you split it into sectors (triangle-like entities), and then "unroll" them, they broadly create a rectangle of width r (the circle's radius) and length πr (half of the circumference), and then you just use the usual rectangle area formula, A = wl, with the appropriate values substituted: A_c = r * πr.

Did most of the exercises, except for a few in the last couple of chapters.

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Internal accounting note: First read associated with Project Mistral, 2024.

[Aprilleigh]

Good coverage of plane and solid geometry, including the relevant trigonometry. It would serve as an excellent review before taking one of the college entrance exams. It could be equally useful for a current geometry student as a means of distilling all the information they’ll get from the textbook and instructor into the basic information they need to know. I do, however, strongly encourage using it as a tool to help generate your own notes rather than in place of notes. The act of organizing and writing notes often cements the information far better than reading it a half dozen times.

[Son Tung]

This book saved me once before my geometry test. I recovered my foundation in geometry. I am now confident with any geometry tests.

[Tavian Lirette]

Let’s make it clear that “Everything You Need to Ace Geometry in One Big Fat Notebook” will likely indeed give you everything you need to make sure you pass geometry in high school, if you’re taking that course. The skills you can learn from this notebook include identifying the lengths of angles, finding the area and perimeter of shapes with three or four sides, and calculating the volume of 3D shapes like pyramids and prisms. They are explained in a casual manner and accompanied by doodles demonstrating the concept at hand. The terms used for various parts of the shapes and graphs are highlighted, so you’ll know when you’re about to grasp a new idea. My only complaint is that the requirements of the curriculum are as far as the book goes - it doesn’t discuss some of the simpler aspects of geometry, like the regular polygons and the symmetrical 3D solids, and particularly how to find surface area and volume for such shapes. Aside from that, what *is* in this notebook is incredibly useful.

[Alvin Chan]

Geometry is quite interesting to read about, I like this book. It talks about trigonometry (sin, cos, tan, etc.), coordinates and length, area and volume. In addition, it is more easy to learn than math in general. I have learnt a lot from this book. It has many things that can make you remember formula and stuff like mnemonic devices, or fun facts. Students of any grade/level, all over the world, or any person interested in geometry can read this to know more knowledge about geometry, it would be extremely useful.

[Disney_World]

Okay... so this book SAVED me for my Geometry class.

My Geometry teacher honestly wasn't a very good teacher. Luckily I had this book to help me learn pretty much everything I needed to know when I wasn't able to learn it myself. :)
It has pretty much everything you need to know to pass through the class, including practice problems to review for tests!

[Maya]

I would recommend this book to anyone in Geometry (or anyone going into Geometry and looking to get a head start). Most of the units I learned about in school were covered briefly in this book and it truly helped me study during the summer before I started Geometry class and during the school year!

[Riana Hapsari]

Geometry revisited!
Baguusss jadi lebih paham aksioma dan cerita awal-awalnya (di sekolah kan biasanya dilompat)
Tadinya sebagai basic mau belajar topologi, yang ujungnya supaya lebih paham kosmologi, wah tapi ga kuat deh otak guee

Tapi buku ini lumayan sih untuk excercise kalau lagi iseng/ ngelamun :p

[Domhnall]

Returning to Geometry at 70 when I finished school geometry at 16 (54 years), I thoroughly enjoyed working through all 55 short chapters of this >600 page book and did the exercises given for each chapter. The colourful illustrations are extremely helpful for this topic and at intervals there are succinct tables that summarise key formulae and can be bookmarked for reference.

[Robert Oseid]

Awesome Helpful Please Publish More

I wish I had this in high school. Tons of diagrams and step by step instructions! I pray they do one for algebra!!!

[Rltwallace]

Thank you

I would recommend this to anyone who has moved many times and experienced the mental jumble of multiple math teachers and too many test failures.

[Tim Fulton]

The format makes it great review and reference. Well organized!

[Zahra Essa]

طريقة عرض المعلومات جميلة
ولكن توقعت إنه بيكون معلومات وحقائق عن الكيمياء بس طلع كأنه كتاب مدرسي لكن تصميمه جميل.

[McKenzie]

Amazing

As a geometry teacher I love this book! Parents you need to get this for your kids! Teachers, a must have in the class!

[Lillian Blue]

HELPFUL BUT MATHFUL 😭

[Eligio Rangel]

Awesome

Great! The pictorials are excellent! It is an excellent for a quick review of important topics. It is useful to study for a teacher praxis exam.

[Graham Bates]

A great visual guide to geometry that is both comprehensive and easy to follow. For those who struggle with math concepts as well. Doesn't include many examples, so it should be paired with another that gives examples.