Teaching Textbooks Geometry vs. other options

[Tami Mom 6]

We are considering our options for geometry. What do you think about Teaching Textbooks Geometry? We want a course that includes some proofs, but not as the primary focus. We welcome any other curriculum recommendations as well.

Thanks for your advice! :)

[Charon]

What set of axioms does Teaching Textbooks use, anyway? What would you do besides proofs in geometry? Would you just do regular coordinate geometry? Some sort of vector spaces? Does Teaching Textbooks talk about methods of proof such as that an implication is equivalent to its contrapositive or proof by contradiction -- that sort of thing? Does it ever get past the T-diagram? Do they at least state all the theorems of standard plane geometry? I'm pretty sure it's not purely synthetic (but it doesn't sound like you want anything like that).

[Heather in VA]

Have you looked at VideoText Geometry? I haven't used it yet but I'm very pleased with their Algebra. I don't have first hand knowledge of TT Geometry but I know they said they were leaving some topics out and putting them in their pre-calc. That's not a problem as long as you know and your student has what he needs before the big testing (PSAT, SAT ACT etc)

Heather