Details: Hello to all Amazon shoppers. This book was shipped very rapidly and arrived in perfect condition. I was extremely pleased by the speedy delivery.
Review Summary: school supplies
Date: 2006-07-14
Details: Order arrived 2 days later than expected, but I was very pleased with the price I paid and the book was in excellent condition
Review Summary: Good In Some Ways; Weak In Others
Date: 2006-07-06
Details: Our school uses this book for all Geometry classes. The book is quite thorough, but serves the teacher more than the students. The students for the most part don't read it; just use it to find the assigned homework problems.
One glaring weakness is on page 306 where Postulate 7 is proven from Postulate 5 in problem 24. After hammering into my students that postulates cannot be proven, there goes the book proving a postulate!
Review Summary: Weak Explanations and Fails to Challenge Even the Average High School Student
Date: 2006-05-13
Details: As a long time mathematics tutor and teacher I know this book very well. I don't think the material is presented or explained in a way that is especially helpful for young people. As a tutor I have to constantly reintroduce the topic and/or try to stay ahead of the student's class. Beyond that, the students are asked to do only the simplest of proofs. Additionally, a new topic will be introduced and then no problems appear in the exercise portion of the section to help the student test and practice his or her understanding of the newly introduced topic (and of course, those problems invariably will show up on the chapter exam and the final).
Moreover, I think the book just fails the kids. It seems to omit certain standard concepts by being "accessible" and undemanding of even the most minor critical thinking skills. I believe that both of these shortcomings will leave the student unprepared for the challenging problems on standardized tests and on college entrance exams. Not to mention any sort of subsequent advanced work in high school and college. Another thing about the Larson book is that the answers to many of the problems are so arithmetically peculiar that the student has no feeling that maybe they actually got the right answer. Good problems reassure the student that they are on the right track. Also, once a new concept or definition is introduced it is never repeated.
Overall, I think that the more capable students will be shortchanged and misled into thinking that they know more than they actually do and the less capable student might pass geometry but will perform poorly on college entrance exams and be unable to successfully progress in mathematics if they need to do so.
Review Summary: Must have when you get text book
Date: 2005-10-23
Details: This is a must have for students that purchased the text book, gives them an opportunity to practice what they learn in the theory.
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