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Hey! I am a girl, and a sophmore!
I am taking Geometry this year! today was my frist day, and my Geo. teacher has different teaching styles, and I am finding it very difficult to learn. He is really into using logic, and I am totally a streat smart person.
Do you have any tips or sugestions to help with this? is there anything that I can do with my notes or anything to help?
thanks so much!
-Kels-
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Logic is one of the fundamental tools of rational thought. Unfortunately for you, it does not appear to be an innate ability of human beings. The sophonts of Deneb VII are born knowing logic and indeed spend most of their lives doing nothing other than proving theorems and reproducing.
My suggestion for you is to realize that logic is like the rules of a game. Just as in chess, certain pieces can move only in certain ways, in logic, certain statements can be manipulated in certain ways. For example, take the statement:
All humans are mammals.
This statement is true. Perhaps we could try manipulating the statement as follows:
All mammals are human.
This is clearly not true. A capybara is an example of a mammal that is not a human. Changing our first statement into the second is an example of an illegal move in the game of logic.
However, a legal rule in the game of logic is to turn it into:
No non-mammal is human.
This is a true statement, because it follows from using a legal logic rule on a true statement.
Logic in geometry is very similar. There are rules to the game, and as long as you play by the rules, you cannot go wrong. The difficulty is in learning how to effectively use the rules to move in the right direction toward the finish line.
Remember, logic is just a game with rules. If you play the game well, your mental awareness will rise to the next level.
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