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Geometry Demystified
LEARN GEOMETRY FROM AN ALL-NEW ANGLE!
Now anyone with an interest in basic, practical geometry can master it -- without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In Geometry Demystified, best-selling author Stan Gibilisco provides a fun, effective, and totally painless way to learn the fundamentals and general concepts of geometry.
With Geometry Demystified you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter and section to pinpoint weaknesses, and a 100-question final exam to reinforce the entire book.
Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, Geometry Demystified is your direct route to learning or brushing up on this essential math subject.
Get ready
* Learn all about points, lines, and angles
* Figure out perimeters, areas, and volumes
* Improve your spatial perception
* Envision warped space and hyperspace
* And much mor
Now anyone with an interest in basic, practical geometry can master it -- without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In Geometry Demystified, best-selling author Stan Gibilisco provides a fun, effective, and totally painless way to learn the fundamentals and general concepts of geometry.
With Geometry Demystified you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter and section to pinpoint weaknesses, and a 100-question final exam to reinforce the entire book.
Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, Geometry Demystified is your direct route to learning or brushing up on this essential math subject.
Get ready
* Learn all about points, lines, and angles
* Figure out perimeters, areas, and volumes
* Improve your spatial perception
* Envision warped space and hyperspace
* And much mor
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310 pages, Kindle Edition
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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