What is Success Geometry?

Success Geometry is a geometry course that has been slimmed down and broken into small, bite-sized pieces and designed for students with extra learning challenges where processing math is difficult. The lessons in Success Geometry typically introduce just one skill at a time in an easy-to-understand format, with frequent reminders and review built in. The goal of the course is for students to experience success in geometry by removing math anxiety and building math confidence, not only by teaching geometry concepts and reviewing algebra skills, but also by teaching skills and habits needed for learning the abstract math taught in high school and beyond.

This course is specifically for students who have a learning or processing challenge that causes them to struggle with math, not for students who have learning challenges but are gifted in math. Diagnoses for these types of students can be (but are not limited to) dyscalculia, ADD/ADHD (but not gifted in math), high functioning autism (but not gifted in math), or other similar processing or learning challenges. However, a diagnosis is not required to determine if your child needs this. Often, a gut feeling from a parent is enough. If your child really, REALLY struggles with and has not experienced success in algebra and other math, then this course is right for them.

Success Geometry has cut out the non-essential geometry topics to make room for focusing on the topics needed to successfully continue on to algebra 2. While this is not considered a “college-prep” course, the goal is to build math confidence and good learning habits in the student that will help them should they desire to pursue college at some point.

A student who completes Success Geometry will have the geometry basics they need to move on to Success Algebra 2 and then Success Advanced Algebra & Trigonometry. By the end of these courses, a student will have enough math credits to graduate high school, as well as the skills needed to take math portions of standardized tests and transition to higher study if desired.

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Common Questions and Answers

How can I tell if Success Geometry is right for my student?

Is my student ready for Success Geometry?

Is this course completely stand-alone?

Where would my student go after taking Success Geometry?

Does Success Geometry teach traditional, formal proofs?

There are many differing views in the math teaching world about this, ranging from "proofs are a waste of time" to "proofs are absolutely essential," and everything in between.

While proofs have their value and are used in the professional math world, students do not write formal proofs in my course. Throughout the course, I teach students to use logic and the rules, definitions, theorems, and postulates of geometry to work problems, but we do not write formal traditional proofs. There are several reasons for this.

1) When writing a proof, there is no "one answer" for the proof. If a proof differs from the answer key, it needs to be closely examined. Often, I find students will take a different, unexpected, or less direct route to a correctly written proof, but rarely discover this by just comparing to an answer key. This can be very discouraging for students, causing them to hate geometry or to unnecessarily lose self confidence in their math ability.

2) Formal proof writing is never used anywhere in any math courses going forward, nor is it tested on standardized tests. This was not my main reason for excluding formal proof writing, but it did play a part in my decision.

Having said all of this, I am not anti-proof, and it does have value. But for a typical homeschool geometry student (the audience for this course), I have found proof-writing to be very counter-productive.

In 20+ years of teaching math (11 of them in public school), I did not see any positive difference in student performance in the years I taught heavy proof writing vs. the years I taught little to no proof writing (I experimented both ways). In fact, proof writing actually tended to have negative effects on the students (they pretty much universally hate writing proofs, which makes them hate geometry and sometimes math altogether).

There are excellent teachers on every point along the traditional geometry proof spectrum, but this is the reasoning behind excluding them from my courses.

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