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Posted: June 06 2008 at 1:44pm \| IP Logged

Does anyone use this or are you familiar with it? I see that it's the geometry that Seton uses for 10th grade.

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Posted: June 06 2008 at 3:48pm \| IP Logged

Yep, I have it and the TM. It is an organized and systematic text. We had no trouble following the explanations in the text. I had a bit of trouble remembering constructions and with a bit of spatial awareness difficulties, I did have my husband grade this part. The hardest part in using the text is that it does take longer to grade certain things as there are many ways to do the proofs and many possible paths, so you have to look at what your child did and not just the answer key. For someone who has a math phobia, geometry would be a really difficult course to teach, but that would be true of just about any geometry that includes proofs. If you are confident in math, you shouldn't have any trouble using the text.

I really wanted a geometry like I had in high school. We were given 3 basic definitions and from that point onward, we proved and used everything else throughout the year. This text wasn't exactly like that and I had a slight preference for another Geometry (one I pulled some proofs out of and used as a supplement to Seton's course) but liked it as well as Jacob's. I felt it had ample practice without being overbearing. If you have done Saxon, you will find the area of solids section a bit redundant and that is where I'd shave assignments unless you really needed more of that.

I'm a big proof fan, though and lots of people argue that proofs aren't all that important. That is a whole different debate. If you want to know chapter headings or see a sample page or two, e-mail me and I'll send you something to look at.

If I'm recalling correctly, I'm not sure how much the Seton Geometry gets into non-Euclidean Geometry but that wasn't a big deal to me as I was dealing with a child who wasn't interested in math or science. It might be more important to a major math guru or someone whose burning desire was MIT admissions.

I'm also not sure whether Houghton Mifflin provides TM to homeschoolers or not, but it is certainly worth checking into. I was only recently able to get an old TM for one of my Geometry texts - just cannot remember which TM the publishers gladly sold me and which I got from retired teachers.

Janet

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Posted: June 10 2008 at 4:06am \| IP Logged

Thanks, Janet, your explanation is very helpful. I'm looking at 3 or 4 different texts right now and trying to make a decision for the fall.

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