How to Solve Word Problems in Geometry

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-11
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
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Summary

The easiest way to solve the hardest problems! Geometry's extensive use of figures and visual calculations make its word problems especially difficult to solve. This book picks up where most textbooks leave off, making techniques for solving problems easy to grasp and offering many illustrative examples to make learning easy. Each year more than two million students take high school or remedial geometry courses. Geometry word problems are abstract and especially hard to solve--this guide offers detailed, easy-to-follow solution procedures. Emphasizes the mechanics of problem-solving. Includes worked-out problems and a 50-question self-test with answers.

Author Biography

Dawn Sova, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor at Montclair State University. She holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and English, as well as a doctorate in English Literature. She serves as faculty advisor for courses offered through the Thomas Edison State College Distance Independent Adult Learning Program, and has worked as a consultant to several school districts in creating math and verbal SAT review curricula.

Table of Contents

Points, Lines, Planes, and Angles.

Deductive Reasoning.

Parallel Lines and Planes.

Congruent Triangles.

Quadrilaterals.

Inequalities in Geometry.

Similar Polygons.

Right Triangles.

Circles.

Areas of Polygons and Circles.

Volumes of Solids.

Miscellaneous Problem Drill.

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