Description
Geometry Course Description
This class is approved by the NCAA.
This year, students will explore the fundamentals of geometry through a study of deductive reasoning, postulates and theorems, lines, angles, congruence and similarity, circles, quadrilaterals, polygons, transformations, and real-world application problems.
Students will build on algebra concepts as they gain the spatial reasoning skills needed for pre-calculus and college entrance exams.
Books / Required Equipment
- Geometry: Seeing, Doing, Understanding, Third Edition by Harold Jacobs, ISBN 0716743612
- protractor, compass, graph paper, scientific calculator strongly recommended
Grade Levels
- 10-12
Prerequisites
- Successful completion of Algebra 1 is required
Course Outline
- Introduction to Geometry
- Deductive Reasoning and Proofs
- Lines and Angles
- Congruent Triangles
- Inequalities in Triangles
- Parallel Lines and Angles
- Quadrilaterals
- Transformations
- Area
- Pythagorean Theorem, Trigonometry, and Special Right Triangles
- Similarity
- Circles
- Points of Concurrency
- Polygons
- Geometric Solids
