<p>The following is the math requirement form University of California freshman admissions, which clearly indicate Geometry should be covered either at middle school or high school and should be recognized by your high school as the high school equivalent.</p>
<p>c l Mathematics – 3 years required, 4 years recommended
Three years of college-preparatory mathematics that include the topics covered in elementary and advanced algebra and two- and three-dimensional geometry. Approved integrated math courses may be used to fulfill part or all of this requirement, as may math courses taken in the seventh and eighth grades that your high school accepts as equivalent to its own math courses.</p>
<p>I looked at the book you referred to and I still think most topics come up in other math courses. Coordinates in algebra, circles and angles in trig and a lot of the other stuff in calc (not explicitly but many problems about optimization and the volume of objects involve geometric concepts - at least in the calc book we used)</p>
<p>Regardless of what the websites of random universities are saying, the universities that CandianGirl is considering seem not to mind the lack of geometry:
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I've also asked my counselor and contacted the schools I'm applying to and they said I'm okay not taking it.
<p>It is not the content but the approach used in geometry is different. It is meant to provide knowledge to students on how to provide proof of the concept that are generally accepted as fact.
It might be learned or used in another course that vertically opposite angles are equal but showing, “How to prove”, is what a course in geometry is all about. That is why it cannot be skipped by taking a higher math.</p>
<p>I never said she would have to. I was just trying to point out that geometery is an essential math course to be taken at the high school level and cannot the requirement cannot be covered by taking another course.</p>
<p>I think she will read enough proofs in calc to make up for the lack.</p>
<p>Btw, maybe my geometry course was just poorly taught but I can recall exactly three proofs throughout the year, everything else was "just make a sketch and you will see that the formula is plausible".</p>
<p>b@r!um/ny10804: The course at my D's school that she took in 8th grade was very tough and is difficult to teach in a full year. Most of the problem in that book are proof based, so getting away with 3 proof in a geometry class is really a piece of cake.
But it might explain the difference in a prep school course and a regular course.</p>
<p>So..do you think I should take geometry at a community college? I took Alg 1 in 8th grade, Alg 2 in 9th, and now Precal/Trig in 10th. However, I've moved 2 times in 8th grade so my courses were all messed up since every school has different math sequences. I had 1 B in Alg 1 and Alg 2 (due to laziness) and now I have straight A's in Pre Calc. I've never learned proofs or anything but I think I know what they are. I can always self study geometry myself during the summer... It will be a piece of cake for me.</p>