any recs for summer workbook for mediocre math student to help prep for honors geometry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its a real disservice to students that FCPS refuses to have remedial math courses. Average students should be allowed to take average classes without having to deal with kids who should be in the remedial level and teachers who don't want to be there.

FCPS is a huge disservice to most students if we are being real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At many FCPS high schools, the non-honors math teachers are terrible to mediocre AND the cohort/classroom environment is not about learning. Not OP but guessing this is the situation. My kid moved down to non-honors Algebra 2 and it was a complete s-show.

This is not true. Many of us teach both honors and non honors courses. Stop spreading these rumors.

OP, register your kid for the appropriate course and stop listening to scare stories. My own kids did not take honors math classes in an FCPS high school in recent years because it was not the appropriate level. No, the courses were not filled with behavior issues or bad teachers. - math teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't part of the definition of teaching being that the person being instructed understands the material?

Otherwise, they are just presenters.

No. That would be nice but we can’t force students to put in effort, pay attention, practice, apply knowledge and learn material. This is especially hard and they might never understand the material when they sign up for the wrong level of the course, as they do with open enrollment.

[Anonymous]

This is not specifically for summer, but my child found "The Big Fat Notebook" series very helpful when studying/practicing at home:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=big+fat+notebook+series&i=stripbooks&crid=1ALAJ2C30QZFU&sprefix=big+not%2Cstripbooks%2C121&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ranker_2_7

She had it for Algebra I, Geometry, Biology, Algebra II, World History. She is now reading the Chemistry one this summer to get ready for Advanced Chem for IB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not specifically for summer, but my child found "The Big Fat Notebook" series very helpful when studying/practicing at home:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=big+fat+notebook+series&i=stripbooks&crid=1ALAJ2C30QZFU&sprefix=big+not%2Cstripbooks%2C121&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ranker_2_7

She had it for Algebra I, Geometry, Biology, Algebra II, World History. She is now reading the Chemistry one this summer to get ready for Advanced Chem for IB.

Yep, this. My DS is teaching himself geometry this summer with this book and workbook. He is a math-inclined kid in AAP, though, so I have no idea if this works for all.