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.
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