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Student Evaluations of their year with Geometry from 2000-2001
The teacher was always full of energy and that encouraged me to learn. You where always willing to help the students when they showed that they where not even trying In this class I learned the most out of all my classes this year.
He never gave up on any of his students no matter how low the grade I liked how you had very interesting activities and fun projects. That you would try to make the class fun while it was educational.
If you have Mr.Rahn it will be a easy year and a lot of fun! I liked the fact that you wouldn't just give us the answer to our questions but you'd relate our problems to previous lessons. This class was cool!!
This course could be taught many ways, but the methods that Mr. Rahn uses are excellently effective! Having this website online helped alot with the learning process, to be able to go online at home and review topics.  The online quizzes were a GREAT big help! Mr. Rahn has a love for what he does, and it is very apparent.  It is said that a student is lucky to have one or two good teachers in his/her lifetime, a teacher that really cares and is into what they preach, but Mr. Rahn definitely is one of those teachers! He has inspired me to WANT to learn! Thank you, Mr Rahn. I have taken a lot away with me this year, I never used to like math before, but now I have truly learned how to apply math to my everyday life.  I have discovered a thirst for knowledge like never before, learning is no longer memorizing lists of words, it's now important and I want to learn and attack everything I learn with a positive mental attitude!
The teacher makes the student, Mr. Rahn has the ability to change people and effect them in a positive way, like no others. With his love for kids and love for what he does, he is one of the teachers that really cares! When his AP students went for their AP exams, one morning first period, he watched them until they got on the bus and disappeared! He is like a father! He teaches his students to have confidence in what they are learning,  I am friends with one of the AP students and she is so confident and in her knowledge because of Mr. Rahn.  Thank you again Mr. Rahn!  And I like your style! His constant excitement in geometry made it worthwhile! The class was great, really informative and really worked the students to their full potential, which I find, as a student, to be worthwhile. Why are we even here if we are not going to put our all into it?!
He has great expectations about his students....that is what gives him an edge over all other teachers. I was impressed with the methods of teaching, as well as the modes of teaching, such as visual aides and projects that made us work with our hands. This mathematics class was certainly a shift from the stereotypical math classes of high school. It was a very relaxed atmosphere, where the question why was emphasized more than how. I would like to have Mr. Rahn again for my math classes in the future.
Our math book this year was very similar to how Mr. Rahn teaches. It allows the student to discover how and why things happen in geometry. This class was good.  The teacher really got me to learn and made it fun it wasn't just sitting around doing math work I got involved and able to understand what we were doing in class.  He was the best teacher I honestly ever had.  He was a lot different than other teachers and I wish that I can have him again in other math courses in Southern and if not I hope that all his other future students get to see what a great teacher he is-- like how I saw him. Appreciate this course and it's aspects, as you won't find another like it for awhile
The textbook was good because it was made for students in their terms and not like those written by a college professor--so the book made it easier to learn from The course was just sooooo much fun, and I really liked working in groups!!!!!!!!! This class was really helpful because it expanded my knowledge of geometry. We didn't just memorize formulas, we actively learned how they worked through hands-on activities.   I was most impressed by the way Mr. Rahn really got into what he was teaching.   He made us know that he cared about teaching us, and teaching us right.
The positive aspects of this course were everything! There was nothing negative. I also liked how Mr. Rahn helped us by not just giving us the answer, he made you work for it. Even though this is frustrating, but in the long run I learn better that day What impressed me most about Mr. Rahn was that he always had an activity that was interesting but also taught the concepts needed.
Mr. Rahn was interesting and fun. I liked the way he dressed didn't match, he was great in explaining in details of geometry. He is the best math teacher i have ever had. i learned a lot, and i understand math a lot more, he also made me like math this year. He made all of his studentsHe was a great teacher. Unlike some teachers he taught so you would understand it in a way that no other teacher taught. feel wanted and feel smart. Mr. Rahn's class is the best. Lots of activities are involved and you can pass if you try. I liked doing the explorations online and online quizzes. It was good how we just didn't learn formulas and conjectures. Mr. Rahn taught us a lot of stuff by explaining the subject more.

 

 This textbook was better than the previous textbooks because it was easy to understand, other textbooks are too technical. This textbook is kind of from a students point-of-veiw, it uses words that students will understand.  This book was also fun --there were a lot of cool jokes in it. Like when we learned about rotation and reflection.
I liked the variety of assessments and the explorations that we had to do. I never had to do fun projects in any of my other math classes so I liked them. The way Mr. Rahn taught helped me understand everything in the course. He was one of the best teachers I ever had. He let us figure things out instead of just plain old telling us the answers. He made me like math a lot more than I used to.