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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hated Geometry because of the proofs but I am not a math person, it never came easy for me. I managed a B and was proud of that grade but it was hard. I also took geometry in 11th grade. Because of my math issues, I took Algebra in 9th, Algebra II in 10th, and ended with Geometry in 11th.

I can easily see where Geometry would trip a kid who has been solid in math up to that point because it is very different.[/quote]

The only reason geometry feels different is because they literally do not teach logical reasoning in schools, as I said earlier. They could teach logical reasoning in a million ways starting in elementary school and apply it to problems in numbers, integers, and algebra. Or give them literally any puzzle that requires some reasoning. But they don't. And that leads to a huge problem where kids can't think on their own and of course find it difficult when they have to try to reason for the first time in their life.

Geometry is just the study of the properties of space, it's not some mysterious abstract object. For kids to not even see a hint of it until high school would be a travesty.[/quote]

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