Does the thought of geometry make you jittery? You're not alone. Fortunately, this down-to-earth guide helps you approach it from a new angle, making it easier than ever to conquer your fears and score your highest in geometry. From getting started with geometry basics to making friends with lines and angles, you'll be proving triangles congruent, calculating circumference, using formulas, and serving up pi in no time.
A Second Course in Mathematics Concepts for Elementary Teachers
Topics: Integers; Rational Numbers; Real Numbers; Functions and their Graphs; Misleading Graphs and Statistics; Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion; Probability; Basic Geometric Shapes and Figures; Symmetry of Plane Figures; Three Dimensional Shapes; Systems of Measurements; Congruence of Triangles; Similar Triangles; etc.
More than 60 new puzzles and stunts based on the properties of numbers. Easy techniques for multiplying large numbers mentally, identifying unknown numbers, determining the date of any day in any year, interest rates worked in one’s head; such entertainments as The Lost Digit, and Psychic Bridge; over 30 pages of magic squares, triangles, cubes, much more. Inexhaustible source of stimulating mathematical recreation. 76 illustrations.
Covers topics in plane and solid (space) geometry. Also included are pictorial diagrams with thorough explanations on solving problems in congruence, parallelism, inequalities, similarities, triangles, circles, polygons, constructions, and coordinate/analytic geometry.
Covers topics in plane and solid (space) geometry. Also included are pictorial diagrams with thorough explanations on solving problems in congruence, parallelism, inequalities, similarities, triangles, circles, polygons, constructions, and coordinate/analytic geometry.
