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What topics will be covered in the VideoText Interactive Geometry Course?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click to see an outline of the Geometry Program<\/a><\/p>\n

What is the rationale behind the traditional sequencing of Algebra and Geometry Courses? In other words, why has Geometry been \u201csandwiched\u201d between Algebra 1 and Algebra 2?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

First, you must understand that, because Algebra is the study of relations, it is the \u201clanguage\u201d for all of the math courses which follow it.\u00a0 In fact, you can\u2019t really even understand the formal relationships of Arithmetic, until you have studied, and understood, the elements of Algebra.\u00a0 That means you should never take any other upper-level math course (Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-calculus, Calculus, etc.) until you have exhausted the study of Algebra.\u00a0 A little history is probably appropriate here.\u00a0 Back in the \u201cold days\u201d, we were required to have completed only two credits of math to graduate from high school.\u00a0 For most students, those two courses were Algebra and Geometry, and we taught them in the proper order, Algebra first, then Geometry.\u00a0 Of course, we never \u201cfinished the book\u201d in either course, but, we did learn enough to receive an allowable credit in each.\u00a0 Then, the credit requirements were increased to three, and we were faced with the problem of what else was available for us to teach, at the high school level.\u00a0 The answer became rather obvious when we realized that we did not complete the Algebra study.\u00a0 So we decided to teach \u201cAlgebra 2, attempting to \u201cpick up where we left off\u201d.\u00a0 You realize, then, that there really are no such things as Algebra 1 and Algebra 2, any more than there would be Geometry 1 and Geometry 2.\u00a0 It is just Algebra.\u00a0 Of course, we then found out that students had forgotten a lot of what they had learned over a year before.\u00a0 That is why you will find that any commercially available Algebra 2 book virtually starts over, at the beginning.\u00a0 This time, however, we would expect the student to move more quickly, since the beginning is \u201creview\u201d, which means we should have some time, at the end to add, as well, the material we didn\u2019t finish in the Geometry course.\u00a0 That\u2019s where Trigonometry, the \u201cmeasuring of triangles\u201d, comes in.\u00a0 And that is why you will find most Algebra 2 books titled, \u201cAlgebra 2, with Trigonometry\u201d.\u00a0 You see, Geometry was never inserted \u201cbetween\u201d Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 at all.\u00a0 There was simply more Algebra (and additional Geometry) \u201cadded on\u201d, because of the additional credit requirement.\u00a0 So, to repeat, a student should never take any formal Geometry course until all of the Algebra has been completed. \u00a0As an afterthought, if you are just looking to get a student \u201cready\u201d for Geometry, you might look at “Keys to Geometry” from Key Curriculum Press. This is not at all a high school credit course in Geometry, but it does introduce most of the terms and concepts found in the course, without any formal proof. \u00a0This would allow the student to prepare well for SAT or ACT testing, and concentrate later on the logic building skills that are introduced in a formal course.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What topics will be covered in the VideoText Interactive Geometry Course? Click to see an outline of the Geometry Program What is the rationale behind the traditional sequencing of Algebra and Geometry Courses? In other words, why has Geometry been \u201csandwiched\u201d between Algebra 1 and Algebra 2? First, you must understand that, because Algebra is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videotext.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}