Whenever you see a shape like that, you refer to it as a triangle, nice and simple. And although all that vocab can be really tedious, it’s really just the opposite: it’s fabulous! Because if you didn’t have all those words flying around in your head, it would be so much more tedious!įor example, take a look at the following figure: In this week’s problem, you may have had those old feelings of discomfort come flooding back, as we encountered many vocabulary words, some old, and maybe some new (like annulus if it’s new to you it’s an interesting one to explore!). One thing that puts many of us off from geometry is the flood of vocabulary we were inundated with in those courses.
However, we’re not going to slap you on the hand and say “hey, why did you forget all your geometry!” To the contrary, we’re going to argue that geometry was good for you, even if you can’t remember any of it!!
GEOMETRY VOCAB SERIES
Those annoying two-column proofs? The fact that it may have seemed so completely disconnected from anything we experienced in real life? Well, this is the first of a series of occasional blogs where we address some of your potentially grim attitudes towards geometry, and try to convince you to think otherwise. Thinking back to our middle and high school courses in geometry, we may remember the unpleasantness we felt, but perhaps not much of the actual geometry we were supposed to be learning! There are many reasons why we might have such bad memories of geometry. Many adults don’t remember their time spent with math, specifically geometry, too fondly. The Power of Geometry Vocabulary DecemGeometry memories
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