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<p>Just curious…when was this? I went to a VERY competitive high school back when the dinos roamed (I took Geometry in 1966-67) and geometry was a full year course for all of us honors students.</p>
<p>Back to the OP…is there a reason why your school says your daughter MUST take this course this summer? Or are they just suggesting this?</p>
<p>I think that the daughter needs to take geometry next summer so she can get her IB diploma without doubling up on math the next school year.</p>
<p>Wow! I am so overwhelmed by the responses! Thank you to each and every person who posted a response and offered valuable suggestions and links. This is exactly why I posted this thread. I will go through these suggestions and links and decide after discussing with my daughter’s school counsellor.</p>
<p>As MidwestMom2Kids replied correctly, the reason my DD needs to take geometry next summer is to avoid taking double math courses in 10th grade (Geometry as well as Algebra 2/Trigonometry) and be on a smooth track for finishing her IB diploma.</p>
<p>The majority have suggested taking an online high school geometry course during the summer, and I am thrilled that such options exist and some of you have experienced it firsthand, but to be completely honest since neither me or my DD (nor any of our friends) have ever had any experience with online courses, I feel reluctant to try it for the first time with such an important foundation course as geometry. And if I am not mistaken, it seems to require a student who is very driven and organized (my DD is smart and driven but time management is a skill that she still has yet to master). However I will look into all the online high school academic programs that were suggested and thank you once again to all.</p>
<p>CTD offers Geometry Honors in 3 weeks at Northwestern. If she’s a rising 9th grader now, though, she would be one of the older kids in that program. </p>
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<p>Philips Andover also offers it in the context of a larger program
[Phillips</a> Academy - Mathematics](<a href=“http://www.andover.edu/SummerSessionOutreach/SummerSession/AcademicPrograms/UpperSchool/CourseListing/Pages/Mathematics.aspx#geo]Phillips”>http://www.andover.edu/SummerSessionOutreach/SummerSession/AcademicPrograms/UpperSchool/CourseListing/Pages/Mathematics.aspx#geo)</p>
<p>I like the program at Western Reserve Academy because it is fairly short, mid June to mid July. Since it was offered last summer, I think it is likely to be offered again this summer, but if you were interested, you would want to ask them what their plans are. </p>
<p>If you are set on coming to the US for the summer (say two months), a one-month class would give you one month for your daughter to take the class and one month for you and she to enjoy your trip. You don’t want to spend the whole summer on geometry…</p>
<p>I am familiar with the school and it is quite nice as a day school or boarding school. I am not familiar with their summer school program.</p>
<p>I took geometry in 10th grade for a whole year. I think geometry is a very fundamental course in math. It’s more than just formulas to memorize, it is one course which has a lot of proofs, and there is usually more than one way of doing a proof. It teaches critical thinking. By doing it in a month, I think a student is getting short changed. I was also a math major, and I think it’s important to know the basic well, not just to get a passing grade. </p>
<p>D1 graduated with a math degree, but she struggled with geometry the first month. I had to show her how to do those proofs, she knew the formulas, but had a hard time put them in proofs. Once she figured out she breezed through the course. She ended up with an A+ for the course. But the methodology of doing the proof has served her well in other math courses. To get it down well, it takes practice and doing a lot of problems. </p>
<p>I am also of a mind set that kid’s should get a break from academic in the summer, do something fun.</p>