Help! DD still not understanding geometry.

[hpymomof3]

To refresh your memory I brought my 14 year old dd home from school in early October due to health problems. We're still not sure if she will be returning to school 2nd semester. Either way she is going to continue geometry at home. The problem is that I just don't get geometry. I'm not sure if it is a mental block that I have from high school geometry. I didn't even take proof geometry but I had an awful teacher who mumbled and then would get upset if you didn't understand what he was saying. I really struggled through that class even though I was typically an A student. DD is usually strong in math, although ever since she had her concussion and also her problems due to the insomnia she doesn't seem to learn as quickly.

I originally tried to teach her using the University of Chicago Math Project geometry book that they use at her school but I found it too difficult to teach since it isn't really designed for homeschool. I switched to Teaching Textbooks geometry because I thought it would help having her watch the videos. I was hoping that she could basically learn it herself and I would be there for backup. She is on lesson 22 and it just isn't clicking. While he instructor is doing the lesson and example problems she seems to do ok but then the homework is often different or more difficult then what the lesson was about. I think part of the problem is that there is just so much information in the book-tons of theroms, definitions and proofs and I don't think that it is really organized in a good manner. It also takes her at least 1 hour to complete the lesson. Is this typical?

I'm not really sure what to do. So far I've only come up with a few options.

1) Continue with Teaching Textbooks and hope that she understands it well enough that she'll have enough knowledge for the ACT test. She really doesn't seem to be understanding the proofs at all.

2) Ditch geometry and have her repeat it sophomore year at the high school. She really doesn't want to do this option. She wants to start algebra 2 next year.

3) Find another curriculum that is easier to understand and that she can somehow finish before summer. I can't spend a ton of money on this since my dh is already upset with all of the money I've spent on schoolbooks lately. Does Lial's geometry explain things well? I'm also considering Saxon but would one book cover enough geometry or would she have to do two books to cover the whole year of geometry. I notice that they have a new geometry book but I'm not sure if I can afford it right now. Does anyone have experience with any of these?

[EKS]

Do you sit with her while she looks at the lesson? When my son was having issues with geometry at the beginning, I would sit with him and watch the videos and occasionally stop the video to ask him questions. Then for the practice problems, instead of having him watch them worked out on the video, we would work them out together. For the proofs, I would have him tell me how he would go about proving whatever it was before we actually tackled writing it down.

It took a few months of this but then he got the idea.

As for TT Geometry not being organized and there being too much information--that's geometry. I photocopied the theorems/postulates/definitions in the back of the book and allow my son to use it as a reference. I'm not making him memorize those things, though he has memorized a good number of them just by using the so much.

It takes my son (for some reason I can't understand) about 1.5 hours to complete a TT lesson and that's not including looking at the video. He does have ADHD, though. When I've done the problem sets, it has taken me about 20-30 minutes. I'd be thrilled if it took my son an hour start to finish.