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Title: How to Solve Word Problems in Geometry
by Dawn B. Sova
ISBN: 0-07-134652-X
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
Pub. Date: 11 November, 1999
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $8.95
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Average Customer Rating: 2 (3 reviews)

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Rating: 2
Summary: Doesn't live up to its title
Comment: This book is, at best, a quick review for those already familiar with the subject. The "word problems" are the same type of basic problems one would find in any geometry textbook; in other words, there are no interesting real-life story problems. To accommodate the book's small size, pictures and diagrams are sacrificed in favor of endless definitions. Example: "Adjacent angles are two angles in a plane that have a common vertex and a common side but no common interior points." This approach makes the book concise, but dry.

Rating: 2
Summary: Consice review, but has typos
Comment: The book has a concise review of geometry. It lists about five to ten related theorems at a time, and then gives about two examples for each. This would be a good review of geometry for someone who is preparing for the SAT or GMAT if there were not so many typos. There are typos such has having the wrong diagram for a given question and listing questions that are not consistent with information in the associated diagrams.

If you are learning geometry for the first time or expect difficulty in re-learning geometry, I would not recommend this book. However, if you need just a quick geometry refresher, then you can probably detect the typos without too much frustration and learn the basic theorems of geometry.

Rating: 2
Summary: You Need More Practice and More Review? Buy if you must!
Comment: This book hardly teaches "how to solve word problem in Geometry". It just crams as much geometry definitions and theorems as it can into small space which can only confuse students that are already confused. In fact, the listing of concepts are not ordered well either.

I almost gave this book 1 star rating since I strongly believed this book DID NOT do the job as its' cover seem to promise. But!...I gave the author some credit for her good intentions and thought about some that it MIGHT benefit...

First, she gives us the shortest Geometry review ever! (I think even Cliff Notes does more)...and points to couple of examples that are somewhat helpful. It adds short exercises (about 10 per chapter) with complete solutions (which is nice). Yes, it may be good for those that want to quickly review (or the quickest review), but there are other books out there that are MUCH more...MUCH better.

I recommend: Geometry the Easy Way by L. Leff. And in many Test Prep. books like those of SAT and GRE contains surprisingly good reviews on Geometry with very insightful problems. I personally like Kaplan's materials.

One more note: The other book of this series "How to Solve Word Problems in Algebra" on the contrary does an excellent job! It really helps.

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