Oct 27

We watched 3 lessons again in class today -- Part E, Lessons 1 & 2 and Part F, Lesson 1. We did the homework from the first two lessons in class. This week's homework is to do the exercises from Part F, Lesson 1.

Oct 20 Class - Important Notes

Well, my plans have changed again. Hopefully this is the right decision. I was all ready to change programs entirely. I sent an email this morning to the Geometry VideoText folks asking about their refund policy. Much to my surprise, Mr. Clark, the author of the program, called me over lunch. We talked about what the issues were and he explained that the initial parts of the program are only intended as an introduction to Geometry...They aren't meant to be understood completely...And the associated homework and quizzes for the initial lessons is not that critical...Other than being frustrated that we didn't know that 6 weeks ago, I found that information to be very encouraging.

I would like to keep trying the program for a little while longer, with some modifications to how much homework we worry about. So for what we have done before this week, we will consider all of the quizzes and homework we were all worrying about to be totally optional....Obviously if someone is doing it and understanding it, that is not a problem. But we will be more selective about what homework is actually assigned from here on out.

Today we finished Lesson 1, Unit C -- no homework from any of that. We discussed it briefly in class, and we're moving on to some more important things.

And we watched Unit D, Lessons 1 & 2. We did the homework from Lesson 1 in class. So for next week there is 1 page of homework -- page 84. (We did page 83 in class.) That's it. Hopefully that is a more reasonable amount, and we can move on to some more critical (and hopefully more understandable) parts of the program!

Any questions, let me know.

Heads Up for Oct 20 Class

We're going to try a different direction -- the DVDs we're currently using are driving almost EVERYONE crazy! This week we will try A Beka's Geometry book and see if that goes better. Don't worry, I should have enough books for everyone (no charge).

I'm sorry that we've spent so long on the other program, I really thought it would get better.

Oct 13 Class

We watched the DVD for lessons Part C, Lessons 4 (area of trapezoids),5 (area of regular polygons), and 6 (area of circles).

By next week, Homework should be done through those lessons, Part C, Lesson 6 and quizzes should be done through Part C, Lesson 3.

Quizzes and Tests

Sorry for any confusion: For those of you who bought the Test/Quiz book, it contains a Form A and a Form B for each Quiz and Test. The students ONLY need to do the Form A of each.

Oct 6 Class

Yes, we will be doing Geometry on Oct 6, during "Fall Break": But since there were so few students, we used the time as a catch up time. We did not continue forward with any additional lessons.