Schaum's Outline of Geometry | 
| Author: Barnett Rich
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 199233
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 367
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0070527660
Dewey Decimal Number: 516
UPC: 639785308171
EAN: 9780070527669
Publication Date: December 6, 1999
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Three million high school students and 172, 000 college students enroll in geometry classes every year. Schaum's Outline of Geometry, Third Edition, is fully updated to reflect the many changes in geometry curriculum, including new terminology and notation and a new chapter on how to use the graphing calculator.
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 Geometry review on schaum's outline November 8, 2008
For the most part this book is great as a tutorial with ample exercises that provide critical thinking pertaining to proving triangles congruent and reasoing in general. Thats the way geometry should be taught critical thinking unlike most books that regurgitate and are watered down. Even though this book is modern, its not as great as plane geometry munro 1959, theres not ample exercises on tedious proofs. My favorite sections are proving quadrilaterals are parallelograms and areas of polygons because these problems force the individual (student) to think outside the box. For example, there are problems where circles are inscribed in circles, sectors inscribed in equilateral triangles, right triangles part of circles, etc.
The weakness is the fact that this book does not provide surface area of hexagonal prisms, polygonal pyramids involve apothems, radii, surface area of cones, no composite figures, just surface area of rectangular prisms and cubes, its the same like schaums outline for algebra in regards to this section and the same regarding reflections and translations. I therefore give this 3 stars because of some redundancies.
Not horrible, not great... August 5, 2008
I got this book as review of basic geometry. Mostly because they never made a Forgotten Geometry text. It's really not bad. It covers quite a bit of ground, from simple geometry to a taste of analytical and transformational geometry.
Conversely, this book didn't wow me either. It covers some basic algebra in the beginning, which is fine for the easier formulas like area and perimeter, but not nearly enough for a comprehensive study of geometry. One should study Schaum's outline of Intermediate Algebra or College Algebra, or a text of their choosing, before tackling any geometry. Especially if your preparing for a Calculus/Analytical Geometry Course.
I haven't found a good intro geometry book yet(I haven't even looked!), but when I do, I'll be sure to update this review. As always, good luck!
 Good for basic refresher March 3, 2008
I bought this book as a recommended book for a masters Geometry class I was taking. While the concepts of my class were far more advanced than this book, the content of the book made remembering about the geometry and basics (probably good through hs geometry) more clear. I good book to take you through high school geometry.
 Caution - There are Mistakes October 1, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book to use with my daughter for added drill and review of Geometry and was shocked to find an inaccurate mathematical statement after the Commutative Law of Multiplication (3a X 5 = 5 X 2a = 10a) and three errors in the solutions provided to practice questions in the first eight pages. I haven't ventured further, but based on my experience thus far, I will need to review every example and problem for accuracy, something I hadn't planned to do and shouldn't need to do.
 Excellent if you need a refresher course in geometry March 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found myself needing to review geometry for the SAT and needed a succinct, clear, and accurate guide. This outline has more than exceeded my expectations. By the time I worked through most of the problems in this book, my geometry skills had doubled and the SAT geometry was relatively easy.
I highly reccomend this book as either a refresher guide or as a textbook.
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