Geometry: Seeing, Doing, Understanding 3rd Edition by Harold R. Jacobs introduces revolution within the approach to educating this topic, one that gave rise to many concepts now seen within the NCTM Standards. Since its publication nearly one million college students have used this legendary text. Suitable for both classroom use or self-paced examine, it makes use of revolutionary discussions, cartoons, anecdotes, examples, and workout routines that unfailingly seize and hold pupil interest.
This edition is the Jacobs for a new generation. It has all the features that have kept the text in school by itself for practically 3 a long time, all in a totally revised, full-color presentation that shows at this time's students how fun geometry can be. The text remains proof-primarily based though the presentation is within the less formal paragraph format. The method focuses on guided discovery to help students develop geometric intuition.
It has to do with Jacobs' writing type: he clearly loves geometry (and mathematics) himself, and writes about it in an attention-grabbing and humorous way. Each new lesson starts out with some clever notion of that individual geometric topic taken from real life, typically from cartoons. So... it isn't written as a "information book" alone, but as a book that you just take pleasure in reading by way of, even if you weren't studying geometry.
The workout routines are here that Jacobs really exceeds. An amazing portion of the exercises are tied in with real-life examples and illustrations, which makes them more interesting than common textbook exercises. They typically cite old math books or math books from different cultures, or come from artwork, architecture, nature, illusions, sports activities, chemistry, geography, astronomy, etc.
The workouts proceed from quite simple ones that verify if you understand the terminology to such that really requires some pondering, so there's something for everybody. (Even center-school college students can do a portion of the problems.) The third edition of the book is in full shade, which makes the exercise sections appear to be "eye-sweet". The again cover states, "Over 2200 new pictures, drawings, and cartoons illustrate new examples and exercises."
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