Do any of you have any suggestions for making geometry more understandable? Math has always been weakest subject and at this time, we are really struggling.
Re: high school math, especially geometry
Really hard to say without knowing what kind of learning problems we’re talking about.
Geometry *does* have a whole lot of rules — for kids with good spatial sense, the rules make sense. For kids without it — OR kids who have not learned to connect their spatial sense to “stupid math rules” that they’ve already developed an aversion to — it’s often necessary to teach those connections and go more slowly.
I don’t specifically know about geometry (“don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology, etc.” :-)), but I do know about Math U See. It uses manipulatives way into upper level math like algebra and geometry. It really is it’s own curriculum, but it is well suited to kids who aren’t learning the regular ways and need the use of manipulatives and learn better visually. You might learn something too. :-)
It’s also inexpensive.
www.mathusee.com
I have nothing to do with the good folk at math u see, and am getting no kick backs. Sorry to say.
—des