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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Damn straight!  Exactly what's going on.  Math teachers have been hit or miss all my life, clearly we're not going to find enough good teachers, but at least there were books.  Now, they've taken those away.  [/quote]

OR - to be a contrarian for a second:

I didn't know that all of a sudden the vast resources of the internet were "poof" gone.  Youtube videos, serious, in-depth explanations - all available at the touch of a button - and not reliant upon out-dated textbooks that just end up being landfill...[/quote]
No, google is not a substitute for a text where definitions have been stated clearly, text has been proofread, teaching order and exercises have been planned.  My daughter took geometry last year without a book (and believe me 500 pages of xeroxing are now landfill).  Early on she needed to label a diagram.  I said "how does your teacher want you to notate a line segment?" she didn't know.  We paged through her worksheets, no clue.  Is it really appropriate to watch a video for information like this?  It's a simple convention that would be clear by opening any traditional geometry book to a random page.  Same thing when it came time to label the quadrants of the coordinate plane.  "When I was in school it was uppercase roman numerals, I, II, III, IV starting in the positive x-y proceeding counter clockwise.  Is this what you've been doing?"  "Don't know."  These are trivial examples, just a couple conventions to get straight before proceeding it only gets worse from there.[/quote]

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