Question by Mark: Honors Geometry is really stressing me?
I’m really stressed. I got an B- 80 last quarter. Now, this quarter I don’t feel confident in myself. I am just so scared that I will do bad this quarter. Please help me should I drop to Standard Geometry. I don’t know what to do. I feel like I am by myself. It’s just so stressful. My parents are going to be VERY upset if I drop the course.

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Answer by Ramon C
Mr. Mark, I play tennis and I coach tennis. In tennis those who focus on the score cannot play well. The concept is to focus on each point. Tennis is more psychological than skill for WHEN to apply that skill, IS what wins matches and gets trophies. You are intelligent and you know that science is about steps to follow and formulas and concepts. Math is all conceptual. Math does not exist in nature. We made it up. We made the rules. We made the numbers. No one can go to multiplication without knowing how to add and subtract. Right? Division need preparation. Right? Is geometry any different? Of course not. The numbers are the same. Basic math is the same. So, part one in geometry is what? To deal with points, lines, figures, etc. More man made inventions. Basics must be learned. Formulas must be learned. With learning comes understanding and visualization. This is high level math. It is not supposed to be easy and must be learned step by step. You are allowing this frustration and fear of failure to overtake the joy of learning, the fun of the application of what you have learned. You are focusing on the score. And just like in any sport if you worry about the sport you forget what is happening at the time. Can you teach me geometry? What you know? There is this movie that I love. What about Bob? is the name with Bill Murray. A semi crazy man follows his psychiatrist to his summer home. Richard Dreyfus plays the psychiatrist and is having trouble teaching his son how to dive. Bill, pretending to be afraid gets the boy to show him, an adult, how to dive by diving. So, in that sense, can you teach me geometry? Pretend I am there and you start teaching me geometry. What you do not know you read from the book. But you are teaching geometry. I am a retired airline captain. For each airplane I have qualified there is a specific training course with a limited amount of time. For my first qualification I was sick with worry. I threw up. I had a fever the night before until I remembered my instructor’s counsel. “Do not worry. You know what to do and you shall do well IN SPITE OF YOUR DOUBTS.” That carried me and the flight examination went very, very well. I think you are doing the same thing. Do not focus on your doubts. Learn the subject one by one. OK? I have limited space so I have to close now. Start teaching me. Bye.

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