methods which will help the students connect geometry to life in the "real world"?
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I didn't start to find it applicable until I started doing wood working so maybe try to figure out personal goals for the student, and apply geometry to said goal or interest- won't work with people who don't have goals though.
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Mainly in architecture (though computers do most of the work these days...).\nAlso, I have a friend who is an artist, and when she creates 3d work (sculptures, interactive art) she uses trigonometry and extremums to decide certain things (the best angle for a part of the work, how to use minimum material when she doesn't have a big budget etc.).\n\nBesides, it's pretty fun, if you like math.
785854
my school asked us to do just one: the daily applications of geometry (with special emphasis on Similar Triangle, Trig and Pyth theorem)
686004
Hell, yes. Proofs = ack! Anyone who says geometry is "easy" is lying. Even if you do good in it, it's still not "easy" for a high schooler.
795468
you can probably searth that like search Homework Help/ Tutoring websites for Geom/honors    and tht will probably work.
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Apply math to real life.\nI remember when I was in high school and i thought that some of the aspects of math were useless and I would never use it.\nI was wrong, completely wrong.\nI have used ratios to determine how to increase machine production on a elemental scale.\nI use fractions and decimals to determine daily outputs and averages.\nI use percentages in calculating payrolls, have to pay those taxes.\n\nIhe list goes on and on, I use math everyday in one way or another.\n\nJust use daily activities to teach math and I wish my teachers would have taught math that way.
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Try this group.  We used them when we were home schooling. \n\nhttp://www.connectionsacademy.com/portal/google.asp
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Basic geometry is first taught in grades 3-5.  At the common branches, you learn how to find the perimeter and areas of shapes, learn the basics about rays, angle measurement, etc.\n\nIn middle school, geometry takes on a different turn but still very basic.  \n\nI high school, I believe grade 10, you are introduced to more intense geometric ideas, direct and indirect geometric proofs, analytic geometry and coordinate geometry.\n\nTo see geometry throughout the different grades, go to:\n\naaamath.com\n\nGuido
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Very good to see that you sincerely want to develop interest in it and have better knowledge.  Geometry at your level fortunately is very visual (since it is mostly 2-d).  The following link has all the Euclid's Elements along with some cool interactive software.  You only need to go through a small part of it..Just play with the software (drag red dots around etc) and develop a feel for geometry first. At first, skip all proofs; just try to understand the statements (postulates, propositions, etc).  That might get you hooked on geometry.  Once you get a good feel for geometry, mensuration falls into place easily.\n\nhttp://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html\n\nAlso play with some simple ideas: always think of a parallelogram as two triangles joined. Likewise, any polygon as a bunch of triangles.  Visualize a complex object in terms of simpler, more familiar "building blocks".  \n\nPlay string 'games': take a piece of string,  tie the ends together to form a loop.  Lay it flat on a table.  You can take a few match sticks and push out the string with the sticks tight so that the string looks like a straight line between any two sticks. You can make any number of polygons (triangles with 3 sticks, rectangles, squares, trapezoids, etc 4 sticks and so on, all having the same perimeter. Think of maximizing the area inside the string with 3 sticks: what do you notice about the angles, lengths of sides? How about with 4 sticks? And so on. \n\nRemember, develop visual intuition first. But pictures are not proof! So, you have develop the ability to make precise argumens using axioms and previously proved statements as well.  But that can come later.  Understanding and discovering facts is much more important than proofs (do not take this as advice to skip proofs, though). \n\nOne more thing: after having read a proof, sometimes you feel that you followed every step, but yet you don't "get it".  If that is the case, you have not really understood it.  You have to get to a point where a proof is not ten impossible-to-memorize steps each of which you understand.  And with practice, you can!  Think of biking: A robot may need to 'perform many steps' such as holding the bike, lifting the left foot, resting on a pedal...  Perhaps we learn the first time like that; but at some point it becomes so natural that we stop thinking about the individual steps and concentrate on higher goals.  Same thing with math.\n\nYou learn math primarily by doing. Good teachers, books, and software provide an immense boost in the process -- but they are all secondary to your own involvement.\n\nHope that helps and stay with it!
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The only way you can use those in real life if you become a geometry teacher and it does not help us in real life.
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When u r solving a problem draw the figure first and mark it clearly. Visualization is the most important part in geometry.\nThe chapters r different becoz each chapter is another step 2 the next chapter. Try 2 remember the theorems studied earlier becoz u need them now. If u feel grounded, keep in mind, in ur book there is nothing u can't do with what u already know. If u hav enough time try 2 solve all the end of chapter problems on ur own.
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talk to your math teachers, ask them what you don't understand so you can understand everything. so when they introduce a new concept, you can figure it out from prior knowledge.
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www.glencoe.com\n\nMost textbook publishers these days have online sites that have self grading practice quizzes and tests. The website above is for the book I use in teaching my Geometry course. Just pick the state you are in and scroll through it to find Geometry books.
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Try these;\nhttp://www.mathleague.com/help/geometry/geometry.htm\nhttp://www.coolmath.com/home.htm\nhttp://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/geom.html
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I'm not a high school teacher but I use this site regularly for elementary.  It has this section on high school geometry, but it's not in PDF. Hope this helps.\n\n\nhttp://www.edhelper.com/geometry_highschool.htm
928210
The best way to attack proving problems in geometry is to answer and answer more proving related problem. No one can help to solve a problem. No one can help you speed up how you solve. It's you who can do that.\n\nMost of my classmates want to be good in algebra.\nBut they hate to solve algebraic proble,.\nI told them to try  answering all the questions and exercises in a book of algebra. At first, they did not believe what I have told them. Until they realize that they are becoming better and better in attacking problems in algebra.\n\nSo i think, it's up tp you if you will be good in proving geometric relations.\nI have also done it myself.\nAnd i can't believe believe that i can answer a problem with ease. It only took me a few second to answer a problem that my classmates took lots of minutes to answer.\n\nBelieve me. Solve and solve lots of problem. And you will soon realize that you will solve difficult problems with ease.
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I would have asked the same question when I was in high school, but now that I am in college I see a real use for it. Engineers, mathematicians, scientists, masons, and carpenters use geometry all the time. It's a lot more useful that you think.