Patty Paper Geometry cross-post

[In The Great White North]

What ages would Patty Paper Geometry be fun for? Could a 6th grader (no algebra) do it? Can she do some things now and save the rest for high school?

We do a little bit of geometry in 6th, 7th and 8th, starting with perimeters, areas, angles, etc.

Since it is not the formal high school geometry class, I am more concerned that it be fun, than that she cover a certain amount, so we could go as slowly as we wanted to with it.

Would you recommend Patty Papers in this situation?

PS. And if we do buy the book, is the workbook necessary/useful? What about the pre-cut papers?
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[Ailaena]

What ages would Patty Paper Geometry be fun for? Could a 6th grader (no algebra) do it? Can she do some things now and save the rest for high school?

We do a little bit of geometry in 6th, 7th and 8th, starting with perimeters, areas, angles, etc.

Since it is not the formal high school geometry class, I am more concerned that it be fun, than that she cover a certain amount, so we could go as slowly as we wanted to with it.

Would you recommend Patty Papers in this situation?

PS. And if we do buy the book, is the workbook necessary/useful? What about the pre-cut papers?





There are certainly some fun things you could do over the course of a few years with Patty Paper geometry. No algebra is needed, but some of the activities uses some technical language, and some of the activities make more sense in conjunction with "formal" geometry study, but it is very minor.

However, it doesn't really have many activities regarding area specifically, it really focuses on showing, through manipulation, the relationships encountered in a typical geometry textbook of angles and sides and circles and stuff like that.

That said, the student book has identical exercises to the teacher book, with the exception of homework or testy-type activities at the end. If I had not gotten the teacher's manual for fifty cents at a college book sale, I would have never bought it. Especially since the student book is $3.50!

Also, the patty papers are SO necessary. I could not find anything that even remotely worked like them. You can draw on them and still see through them, and see the folds through the papers. Yes, needed (IMHO, of course) I bought a stack of 1000 for $8 here (http://www.eaieducation.com/500491.html).


HTH!

[In The Great White North]

Wow! Thank you so much.

I was going to buy the TM instead of the Student's. Now, I'll get the workbook and papers.