Customer Reviews

College Geometry: A Discovery Approach (2nd Edition)

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Although I applaud Kay's intentions in presenting geometry in this fashion, I think that this book would require an excellent teacher to accompany it. In some ways, I might have predicted this, because to preserve the "discovery," you have to be a little coy about what you are trying to teach...you have to hide the point. The book would be an excellent reference text, as Kay provides the historical context of most of the theorems, and the material is presented in a rather dense format.

I read this text line by line and still needed a good teacher and research on the web ...and I like math. If you have the choice try a different text.

I guess there really is no good way to approach geometric proofs in college. No matter how you look at it, they are rough. But, I tend to be a positive person, and I feel that there has to be a better way of describing college geometry compared to this book. It's very dry, and even if you read the text line by line, you're bound to get lost. It doesn't help that I don't have a very good professor for this class, but nonetheless, I'm still not very satisfied with the overall layout of this book.

This textbook was horrible. I am a math major, and am good at math. I also love math, and this book was so difficult to understand and so hard to use. Not to mention, the answer section doesn't show any work to help find the answers. Overall, I would not recommend this book at all!

Book came in good used condition. There was some writting on the exercise pages but nothing that took away from the educational content. Would buy from this seller again.

The book arrived on time and was as described, but the cover had creases in it already although the item is advertised and is a new product. This was sent straight from Amazon, so I found this a little surprising and disconcerting. Overall, though, the book is a good value and the creases were not horrible. Definitely buy here over used or new in a campus store.

amazon unfortunately linked up another listing and i received the previous edition and not this one. You got the book to fast and just when i needed it.

I needed a clean (as few pencil marks and erasures as possible), well-kept (no torn or loose pages), and cheap textbook. I got all three within 5 working days from looking on Amazon. College bookstore prices are outrageous, and I'm glad you are a reasonable alternative.

Generally, it doesn't bother me if items take a while to ship. However, when I order a textbook over a month in advance, I expect to have it before my classes start. It has been a week since classes started and Amazon still says the item hasn't even been shipped.

The book was in great condition, and arrived just in the nick of time. This was the first time a book was ever sent on time!