I am entering middle school this year. This year we will be working on geometry, but I hardly know what it is. I asked my dad, but he gave me a long answer that I couldn't understand.
Geometry is founded in the study of the Earth.
The sort of geometry you need in daily life is FLAT or planar geometry. So this was the first sort of geometry developed. Today, geometry is more the study of shapes than the study of Earth. I hope this makes sense to you. If not, please write back, and we'll try to explain again.