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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dont understand who would subject their kid to that. what's the point?[/quote]

For a kid who is both interested in math AND good at math, Geometry in the summer usually facilitates taking a more advanced math class in their senior year.  In turn, this can both (a) improve the admission lottery chances into a college STEM program & (b) better prepare the student for math in college.  As a bonus, it sometimes reduces “learning loss” between the regular school year Algebra courses, [b]because they do not discontinue algebra studies for 12 months.[/b][/quote]

Neither does a student who takes geometry during the school year.  [b]Geometry is just applied algebra. [/b] Finding angle measurements, finding sides of triangles...it's just equations, systems of equations, simplifying radicals.  Algebra.[/quote]
Nope, not at all, seems you didn't learn geometry very well in school.

You are confusing synthetic geometry with analytic geometry.[/quote]

NP (I teach both geometry and algebra 2) - the PP is actually completely correct. The way the geometry standards are written in Virginia, it is nearly all just applied algebra. There's a tiny bit of trig (which then involves solving simple equations), and a halfway glance at proofs (barely), but there's not much else that isn't algebra or basic computational skills. Proportional reasoning, angle measurement, similar triangles...it's all just algebra.

The kids who claim to not like geometry but don't mind algebra just don't know how to set up the equation from the diagram.

My geometry class in high school was a lot of proofs and constructions, but that is no longer part of the (standard) geometry curriculum. Our honors classes still do proofs, but the gen ed ones don't beyond the bare minimum (steps are listed, students have to justify the logic behind them)[/quote]

I would assume that anyone crazy enough to consider Geometry over the summer is talking about Honors Geometry and that is full of proofs and constructions (at least that’s what DD dealt with).[/quote]

Even honors geometry barely has constructions now (and the ones it does have are all digital)[/quote]

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