Can anyone recommend a simple geometry text...

[DianeJM]

Looking for geometry that's on a bit slower track or is a bit less rigorous, for a dd who has learning issues. High school geometry is probably high school geometry, but is there a book that's maybe simpler/easier to approach b/c of maybe its visual qualities, or maybe a slower pace?

 

If you know of anything, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

If I don't get any recommendations, I think I'll just pick whatever seems best and just go slower.

 

Thanks so much!!

[ccm]

Discovering Geometry: An Inductive Approach (Michael Serra, Key Curriculum Press)

 

http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/Discovering+Geometry%3A+An+Investigative+Approach+Student+Textbook/008054/1277824174-75915

Edited June 29, 2010 by ccm

[Julie in MN]

Maybe Math-U-See or Teaching Textbooks would be good because they have the visual component as well as the work pages (and TT has a text, too), the answers are worked out if you need help finding where you want wrong, and there's good access to the author via email?

 

Julie

[DianeJM]

Thanks, ladies. I will take a look at these. She will have a tutor, so, with the tutor's input, I'll consider all these and find out which would work best.

 

Thank you very much!!

Blessings,

[Laurie in CA]

I actually used Discovering Geometry with my middle son and really liked it. We used the Geometer Sketchpad too. It was not proof heavy like the Chalkdust Geometry I used with my daughter this year. The two are very different approaches to Geometry. My daughter does not like Geometry at all. I like the Chalkdust lectures and hate the textbook which was the newest one. I had used Chalkdust Geometry with my oldest son years ago I liked it but the textbook was different from the current one. To compare the two, I would say that Discovering Geometry is very hands on and construction oriented and Chalkdust is proof-heavy.

[chalkboard]

will cast a second vote for Math U See, which we will be using this coming year.

 

Susan

[chalkboard]

I want to add that if either the MUS or Discovering Geometry doesn't trip your trigger, you might want to consider the Key to Geometry books. My oldest dc completed that course with some Rod and Staff level 8 math geometry and mathtutor dvds thrown in to round out the course which I called Essential Geometry on the transcript.

 

Susan

[DianeJM]

I do like MUS, have used it for younger grades in the past, am using it now with my youngest, and have not seen any of the high school texts, but I will look at it.

 

And, yes, the "Keys to" books, I forgot about those. I saw them on the same site as "Patty Paper Geometry" that someone else had posted on a different geometry thread on the K-8 board (that looks pretty hands-on). Same company.

 

Okay, great! Thanks!

[Lori D.]

Another Math U See vote here. Just finished MUS Geometry this past year with DS who is a visual-spatial learner (he struggles with the abstract math topics of algebra, but flew through the Geometry).

 

MUS has a video for each lesson, which not only clearly/visually explains the "why" of each topic, but includes little tricks and tips to add memory. There is a workbook so the student doesn't have to copy problems out of the textbook, and the workbook doesn't have too many problems on a page. Proofs are just lightly touched on, and are set up in a fill-in-the-blank format, so they are quite easy.

 

There are a few algebra review problems each week to keep up those skills, as well. Overall, the program is gentle and incremental in a mastery approach.

 

BEST of luck in finding what works best for your student! Warmest regards, Lori D.

[LoriM]

I still like the Cliff's Notes Geometry, the little yellow book you can buy at Wal-Mart for $10. That plus internet sources are plenty, then a good SAT/ACT prep book.

[DianeJM]

My dd is definitely not an abstract thinker (understatement ;)); maybe the MUS would be good for her after all. I know that geometry was much easier for me than algebra in high school as well. And she's kinda like me, only more so:D.

 

Thanks so much everyone for all the suggestions!!