Geometry: Integration, Applications, Connections |  | Authors: Robert Cummings, Allan Berele, Tim Kanold, Boyd, Carol Malloy
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
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Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 8.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0028252756
Dewey Decimal Number: 516
EAN: 9780028252759
Publication Date: June 1998
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 Real world geometry March 26, 2000
Jagannadha Avasarala (Wichita, USA)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This text illustrates the fact that math need not be dull and abstract. In citing real-life examples such as calculating the load that a bridge can take, versus how to arrive at deciphering the tilt of a building, this book elevates math to a fun and practical level. In doing so, it convinces students that math can be applied to everyday life and that its applications are indeed, widespread. It is a great introduction for anyone seriously interested in pursuing math and math-oriented professions such as engineering.
 Absolutely Horrid! Avoid like the plague! February 28, 2006
Ashraf Eassa (New Hampshire, USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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 teacher to fill in, I suppose). This book is bad, really bad, and I cannot stress this point enough.
I'd reccomend "Geometry the Easy Way" by Lawrence S. Leff, if you truly want to learn the topic (it covers everything that this joke of a text covers...only in more depth). Oh, and it's only $10 or so.
Also, avoid the Algebra II textbook by these clowns, it's written in the same bad style, poorly teaching the lessons. In general, Glencoe products are of the lowest quality. I'm studying calculus independently, and I'm sure glad that Glencoe doesn't produce a calculus text (otherwise the school may have given me that).
Geometry: Misconnections August 25, 2003
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
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, our school district didn't.
Perhaps the worst Math Book ever "Written" June 20, 2006
Avid Reader (Franklin, Tn)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 least by anyone looking for something rational.
Like others, I noticed that the "team" of writers (it's almost as if they took turns writing paragraphs) continually introduced material BEFORE it was studied. Then there were the "examples" - just pitiful. Proofs were confusing, redundancy is taken for granted and the number of sub-subjects - review, standardized tests, chapter study, real life example, etc all ran together in a mushy mixture of words and concepts. IF YOUR CHILD MUST USE THIS BOOK GET EITHER A TUTOR OR PURCHASE "Geometry the Easy Way" by Lawrence S. Leff. I picked it up for $2.99 from Amazon.
A one star is overly generous.
The Epitome of What is Wrong in Math Education July 21, 2006
PackerBronco (Verona, WI USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 pictures, and a litany facts TOTALLY UNRELATED TO MATH. Unfortunately, the students will eventually find out this is a math textbook, so introducing all of that fluff is a wasted effort.
In looking through this book, I would say about 65% of it can be jettisoned, leaving 35% of the book that actually deals with math in a direct and useful way. However, you really have to wade through a lot of nonsense to find that stuff.
Avoid this book. Period.
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