# Project: First Chapter of Geometry Book
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-first-chapter-of-geometry-book/380
**Category:** Projects
**Created:** [October 29, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-first-chapter-of-geometry-book/380 "2021-10-29T00:37:26Z")
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### Author:  [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-first-chapter-of-geometry-book/380/1 "2021-10-29T00:37:26Z")
## Project Summary
**Summary:** Do the first chapter of the Art of Problem Solving’s Introduction to Geometry book.
## Goal
**Goal:** Try out the book and try out doing a project with one of these templates. Success would be if I at least attempted all the exercises in the chapter in some reasonable amount of time. Failure would be if I dropped the project for a long time.
**Metrics:** I kept getting stuck on this. I think i’ll just table the issue for now and think about what good metrics might be for later related projects, rather than continue to be stuck.
**Broader goal:** Working through whole book and trying to use CF project planning templates more.
**Values:** I’m interested in learning math. I like math and find it fun.
**CF relevance:** I think learning math could help with being a more precise thinker, which would be helpful for learning philosophy.
## Plan
**Plan:** Steps are to read the sub chapters in order and then work through the problems.
**Project size:** Small. Only stuff in scope are the exercises in the chapter.
**Resource budget:** Some free time.
**Asks:** If people notice any errors in stuff I write about the project, corrections would be appreciated.
**Offers:** None.
**Independence:** I’ll finish the project regardless of whether people say stuff or not.
**Confidence:** I am very confident the project will be completed. It is small and should be easy and basically review for me.
**Follow through:** I’d be very surprised if I needed to take a major break. It might take a bit longer than I’d like if I got super busy.
## Context
**Context:** None.
**Background:** I have some background math knowledge.
**Track Record:** I’ve had some success doing learning projects before (like with grammar and programming).
**Priorities:** I was working on a math book already and got the suggestion that this book might be good to try.
**Progress:** Looked at book a bit.
**Problems:** I got stuck on filling out this template for some time and wound up delaying working on the project as a result.
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### Author:  [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-first-chapter-of-geometry-book/380/2 "2021-10-30T02:41:06Z")
An unexpected thing! The book wants me to use a math compass to solve a problem. I guess I should consider getting one of those!
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### Author:  [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-first-chapter-of-geometry-book/380/3 "2021-10-30T20:36:58Z")
i bought a set with a compass and some other stuff from amazon. it comes tomorrow
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### Author:  [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/project-first-chapter-of-geometry-book/380/4 "2021-11-01T01:09:37Z")
I have completed my project successfully. 🥳🎉
Since I picked a small and easy project, it was pretty straightforward. Nothing went super wrong, though I did have to get some additional tools, which I did not expect at the beginning. I didn’t learn a ton, but I only did a bit of material. I did learn a bit about how you approach a certain type of problem using only a compass and straight edge, which is a type of problem I don’t think I’ve encountered before (or if it I did, it was so many years ago that I have forgotten…)
I plan to make a similar project for the next chapter or two (which will be more like “real chapters” instead of brief intros) and and some point will possibly make a longer term project for the remainder of the book.