As a math teacher and tutor, I disagree with those who say this book is too hard. This book is exactly what a typical geometry textbook looked like in the 1980s and early 1990s. It clearly explains concepts with plenty of examples. It is well-organized. It has a comprehensive glossary, index, and list of theorems and postulates. It presents exercises in order of difficulty, beginning with the easiest. It offers many exercises per section (often 30 or even 50), rather than just 10 or 20. The answers to the odd problems are in the back. In short, it is exactly what any student ought to have in a geometry book.
Clearly, there will always be some students who struggle and some who find geometry to be a challenging subject, in general. However, any average or above average student really ought to be able to read this book and learn geometry from it. The problem is that students simply haven't learned how to use a textbook! I constantly have to teach students how to use the table of contents, index, glossary, etc. Once a student learns these study skills, s/he ought to be able to take this book and run with it, assuming s/he has sufficient basic algebra skills to succeed in geometry.
On the contrary, the Geometry book by Larson, Boswell, et al (also published by McDougal Littell) is simply horrendous. It is so replete with dazzling colors and uninformative pictures that I can hardly find the theorems. (It's like a "Where's Waldo?" of theorems and postulates.) By contrast, the Jurgensen book may look dry, but the authors conservatively reserve color to bring your attention to the most important information, such as theorems you should memorize. And it works! The most important memorization-worthy information jumps off the page. I can find theorems and corollaries in this book almost as quickly as if the book were tabbed.
As a tutor, this book will always be my go-to geometry textbook. No matter what textbook they are using in school, I usually have my geometry clients purchase a used copy of the Jurgensen book to use as a reference. So far, all of them agree that it is much easier to use and better organized than any book they have used at school.
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We ordered this book in the "acceptable" condition, but the book shows major wear. The hardcover is about to fall off, and has to be glued on with tape. The pages are in acceptable condition, with little writing.
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