Books : Geometry: Integration, Applications, Connections
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by: Robert Cummings, Allan Berele, Tim Kanold, Boyd, Carol Malloy
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 516
EAN: 9780028252759
ISBN: 0028252756
Label: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1998-06
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 347117
Studio: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
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Rating:  - The Epitome of What is Wrong in Math Education
Math books in Japan and Singapore are short, inexpensive, and to the point. Math books in American often look like this monstrocity: long, expensive and rambling. For example we learn about the history of jeans, we learn that Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman to go into space, and that in 1974, Beverly Johnson, the first black model on the cover of a major fashion magazine. In other words, this book tries very hard to hide the fact that is math book by introducing glossy photos, color ... Read More
Rating: - Perhaps the worst Math Book ever "Written"
In my home state of Tennessee, this is the text that unsuspecting school kids must decipher. It should have been easy - it's structure (and I use the term loosely) broadly resembles MTV with its numerous subjects per page, chats about unrelated subjects, some of the worst use of the English language ever and a colorful, multi-font, in-your-face appearance. There's pictures and graphs and arrows and charts and big text and small text and cartoons...Yet it cannot be understood much less absorbed - at ... Read More
Rating: - Absolutely Horrid! Avoid like the plague!
I am taking an honors level geometry course at my high school, and this, unfortunately, is the text that we have been given. It's absolutely rubbish. The lessons don't really teach the concepts, they just show some examples, which are hard to comprehend without actually knowing the topic that they're trying to teach/demonstrate/show-off/whatever. Furthermore, the problems at the end of the lessons/chapters clearly assume knowledge beyond the scope of what was taught in the book (leaving holes for the ... Read More
Rating: - Utterly Confusing for Middleschoolers
I was recently amazed when my daughter, who has been a strait A math student, showed me this textbook along with a poor grade in her first quarter taught with this book. I am an electrical engineer with math minor who greatly enjoys math applications in engineering.
I've read through many chapters of this book in utter confusion. There are so many applications and examples, it's hard to find the math concepts, particularly in the early introductory chapters. Chapter one of this book, ... Read More
Rating: - Geometry: Misconnections
This is a very poor math textbook. Here's the main problem: End-of-chapter problem sets require knowledge and skills that have not been clearly introduced in the chapter. Chapters meander through irrelevant or mundane points (e.g., how to bisect an angle using a compass...this is middle school stuff) but then call on different skills in problem sets (e.g., where was this postulate discussed in the chapter?). If you are looking for a good geometry book, I suggest that you look elsewhere. Unfortunately, ... Read More
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