Geometry For Dummies Education Bundle - Softcover

Ryan, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470537027 ISBN 13: 9780470537022

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Synopsis

Learning geometry doesn t have to hurt. With a little bit offriendly guidance, it can even be fun! Geometry For Dummies, 2nd Edition, helps you make friends with lines,angles, theorems, and postulates. It eases you into all theprinciples and formulas you need to analyze two– andthree–dimensional shapes, and it gives you the skills andstrategies you need to write geometry proofs.

Before you know it, you ll be understanding proofs like anexpert. You ll find out how a proof s chain of logicworks and discover some basic secrets for getting past rough spots.Soon, you ll be proving triangles congruent, calculatingcircumferences, using formulas, and serving up pi. The non–proofparts of the book contain helpful formulas and tips that you canuse anytime you need to shape up your knowledge of shapes.You ll even get a feel for why geometry continues to drawpeople to careers in art, engineering, carpentry, robotics,physics, and computer animation, among others. You lldiscover how to:

• Identify lines, angles, and planes
• Measure segments and angles
• Calculate the area of a triangle
• Use tips and strategies to make proofs easier
• Figure the volume and surface area of a pyramid
• Bisect angles and construct perpendicular lines
• Work with 3–D shapes
• Work with figures in the x–y coordinate system

So quit scratching your head. Geometry For Dummies,2nd Edition, gets you un–stumped in a hurry. Whenyou need to shape up, open up the included Geometry Workbook ForDummies, which contains over 290 pages with hundreds ofpractice problems featuring ample workspace to work out theproblems.  Each problem includes a step–by–step answer set toidentify where you went wrong (or right). You ll be provingyourself proof–worthy in no time!

 AUTHOR BIO: Mark Ryan owns and operates The Math Center inChicago, a teaching and tutoring service for all math subjects aswell as test preparation. He also wrote Geometry Workbook ForDummies.

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About the Author

Mark Ryan owns and operates The Math Center in Chicago, a teaching and tutoring service for all math subjects as well as test preparation. He also wrote Geometry Workbook For Dummies.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470537027
• ISBN 13: 9780470537022
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 420