Talk:Geometry for Elementary School
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The California curriculum guidelines could be used to help organize the book. [1] Kinglag 00:05, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Adding illustrations
I added some images to "our tools" and "constructing equilateral triangle". I released them to the public domain. I'm completely new to this, so if I messed anything up, let me know or revert to the previous version. I'd like to add more illustrations.
I made the compass and ruler as 3D Blender scenes, so it's easy to make new 2D images. I forgot to add a summary of my edits. I probably should have discussed this before going ahead? Any suggestions for improvements or corrections of mistakes are welcome.
Mcgill 10:35, 05 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More updates
I added more diagrams to some chapters. A lot of this book will need drastic simplification if it's going to be understood by kids. I've almost finished the diagrams for "Constructing a triangle" - drawing them in autoCAD was difficult enough for me, getting a child to draw them on paper could be seen as a form of mental torture. Need much clearer explanations or maybe consider omitting the chapter.
Mcgill 18:31, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] To illustrate my previous point
The diagram for "Constructing a Triangle" would look like this:
(where AB is one side and I carelessly forgot to label the remaining vertex;) I intend to break the construction into three stages, erasing the construction lines after each stage. Hopefully that might simplify it a bit.
Mcgill 19:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Updates
The triangle construction has been simplified a bit. Mcgill 20:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright violation from another site
Hi, i'd like to report that the page linked here and some other related pages have been copied from this wikibook. --84.221.88.72 (talk) 20:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A Question / Suggestion
This is a very good wikibook, but it seems a bit complicated for an elementary school student. I could be totally wrong but maybe we should make the articles a little bit easier with simpler math and less complicated words. --Sanitized (talk) 05:47, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
I agree with the above person and share the opinion. Wikijunior has books supposedly aimed at children upto 12.(with some give and take, consider 14) But this book treats topics like fractals, with summations of infinite geometric series, and what not! I think the book ought to be made simpler and more interesting, possibly with more illustrations or something. Please note that a 12 yr old can neither understand, nor is interested in an equation with a "sigma", summing up an "infinite series", none of which he/she knows about, to give an answer that says (4/3)^n, when they can barely understand what 3^2 is!!! <anon> 10:39, 30 Jan 2009 UTC
[edit] Exercises
Why there is no Category for Exercises in the Wikibooks? I am specially interested (but not restricted to) math exercises; I wrote some in the Portuguese mirror. Albmont (talk) 20:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] CAPS
Shouldn't the title Geometry for elementary school be in capitol letters? I would change it to Geometry for Elementary School, but that would mess up all the links. Anyone know how to do this graciously? --Cretaceous9 (talk) 12:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
