SOLUTION: are there any tips to make proofs in geometry easier? I'm really having a hard time. When my teacher is discussing it, i get it but when he gives us a new given my mind just goes c

Question 1007094: are there any tips to make proofs in geometry easier? I'm really having a hard time. When my teacher is discussing it, i get it but when he gives us a new given my mind just goes completely blank and i dont even know where to start after I write down the given for reason # 1.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
All you can do basically is study - HARD!.

Spend MORE time studying. Study earlier since each lesson/class meeting instead of later after each lesson or class meeting. Start review each day and begin homework SOON, without a long delay. Study EVERYDAY, because you must keep pace with instruction.

Geometry is very difficult for some students. You cannot change this; you can only study sooner and more frequently, and longer. "Sooner" for some students, shoud also include, "before the teacher reaches that lesson for classroom presentation". If you can take the time to study the book sections one or two weeks before the teacher presents them in class, then you have some opportunity to learn the section and topic before it is taught in class - at which time you review again what you already tried to learn, and maybe have a chance to learn better.

Examples in The Book:
Be sure you try every example in each assigned book section and try to do the problems and the proofs on your own. Then use the book solution to check how you were doing or for guidance. Use the example solution in book to figure out what you did wrong; or to verify how well you did.

Compass, Straight-Edge, Protractor, Construction Exercises:
DO THEM!
DO THEM PROPERLY!!!!
Read the textbook instructions how to do these constructions and do what the book says. Follow your teacher's instruction/directions. Students will have much less trouble learning Geometry if they do ALL the assigned construction exercises, and do them the way they are supposed to be done.
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