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Geometry Concepts Syllabus
Instructor: Mrs. Spencer
School Phone #: (815) 765 - 9461
Class: Geometry Concepts
E-mail: [email protected]
Year: 2014 - 2015
Semester: 1 and 2
Website: http://mrsaspencer.weebly.com
Text:
Geometry, Prentice Hall, 2009
*** For extra help online, visit: www.phschool/math
(click on textbook companion site, our textbook, then chapter number)
Description:
This is a course in Euclidian Geometry dealing with points, lines, planes, and polygons.
Students learn about congruency and similarity on the basic figures of geometry. Parallel and
perpendicular lines are studied with their relationship to slope. Formulas for finding the areas of
two and three dimensional figures are investigated. Properties and theories involving triangles
are studied. Inductive and deductive reasoning skills are developed and used in formal proofs.
Course Expectations:
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Be Respectful:
o Treat peers and staff the way you would like to be treated!
o Treat all property as though you bought it.
Be Responsible:
o Be in your seat when the bell rings.
o Have all class materials with you, pay attention, and take notes.
o Have all homework and projects completed when due.
o Seek help whenever you need it!
o STUDY!!
o Only use your phone when I say it is allowed.
o Stand up for peers who may be struggling socially or academically.
Be Productive:
o Try to finish all your work before you go home.
o If all your work is done, create me something!
Materials (Needed Daily):
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PENCIL and pen
Textbook
Notebook and folder or loose-leaf paper and binder
Scientific Calculator
Semester Grades:
Tests:
Quizzes:
Projects:
Homework:
40%
25% 80% of Final Grade!
25%
(40% per quarter)
10%
90% - 100% -- A
80% - 89.9% -- B
70% - 79.9% -- C
Anything below a 70% is an F
Final Exam: 20%
Homework:
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MUST be completed in pencil!
Should either be kept in a notebook or on loose leaf paper in a binder.
Will usually be between 7 and 20 problems and should take no longer than 30-40 minutes
to complete.
o If it takes longer than this, guidance is needed.
 I will be available before and after school most days (make an
appointment to ensure that I will be there at the time you want.)
 khanacademy.com is a great online resource.
This is PRACTICE! Therefore, every problem should still be attempted and thought
through, but wrong answers will not affect your grade. (***Exception: if done
completely wrong, there will be a need for a make-up)
Will be peer-graded daily in class for accuracy, and a completion grade (0-4 points) is
what will be going towards your final grade.
Late homework will lose a point for everyday late.
Exams:
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Will be taken at the end of each chapter.
Test will be split up into the chapter sections and they will be graded individually,
although still one test grade will be given.
If a section is failed, a re-take is allowed as long as ALL homework and study guide was
completed PRIOR to the test.
Chapter Targets Being Assessed This Year:
Chapter 1: Tools of Geometry
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Students will be able to:
o Understand and identify the basic terms of geometry
o Analyze and classify points, lines, and planes in geometric objects
o Use patterns to make conjectures and create counter examples
o Classify and recognize angles and angle pairs
o Find the measure of segments and angles
o To determine the distance and midpoint between two points on the coordinate
plane
Chapter 3: Lines, Angles, and Triangles
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Students will be able to:
o Identify and apply the properties of parallel and perpendicular lines to solve
problems
o Use properties of parallel lines to solve problems
o Classify triangles and find measures of their angles
o To write and graph linear equations
o Relate and identify parallel and perpendicular lines by using slopes, graphs, and
equations
Chapter 10: Area and Perimeter of Polygons
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Students will be able to:
o Solve for perimeter in rectangles and triangles and areas of rectangles, triangles,
parallelograms, trapezoids, rhombus, and kites
o Find areas of regular polygons
o Use similar figures to find similarity ratios, ratios of perimeter, ratios of area and
to solve problems using these ratios
o Find arc measures, circumferences, arc lengths, area of a circles, and area of a
sector in circles
o Use segment and area models to solve geometric probability problems
Chapter 11: Nets, Surface Area, and Volume
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Students will be able to:
o Identify three-dimensional figures, nets, and cross-sections
o Find the lateral and surface area of cylinders, prisms, cones, and pyramids
o Find the volume of cylinders, prisms, cones, and pyramids
o Find the surface area and volume of a sphere
o Find the surface area and volume of composite space figures
Chapter 4 and 7: Triangle Congruence and Similarity
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Students will be able to:
o Recognize congruent figures and their corresponding parts
o Identify and distinguish amongst the types of congruent triangles
(SSS, SAS, AAS, ASA, HL)
o Use and apply properties of isosceles triangles
o Use triangle congruence and CPCTC to prove that parts of two triangles are
congruent
Chapter 6: Quadrilaterals
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Students will be able to:
o Name quadrilateral based on appearance, markings, slopes, and distances
o Use relationships among sides, angles, and diagonals of all parallelograms
(parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, square) to determine side lengths and angle
measures
o Use relationships among sides, angles, and diagonals of kites and trapezoids to
determine side lengths and angle measures
o Analyze properties of quadrilaterals and use these properties to name coordinates
Chapter 8: Right Triangles and Trigonometry
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Students will be able to:
o Use the Pythagorean Theorem and simplest radical form
o Use the properties of special right triangles to solve problems
o Use the sine, cosine, and tangent functions to find ratios and solve triangles
o Use trigonometry functions to solve problems; including problems with angles of
elevation and depression
Chapter 9: Transformations
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Students will be able to:
o Identify isometries and to find translations of points and figures
o Find reflection images of points and figures
o Draw and identify rotation images of figures
o Identify the type of symmetry (reflectional and rotational) in figures and if
rotational, then find the angle of rotation
o Draw and locate dilation images of figures
Chapter 12: Circles
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Students will be able to:
o Use the relationship between a radius and tangent and between two tangents to
solve problems
o Use congruent chords, arcs, and central angles to solve problems
o Find the measures of angles formed by chords, secants, and tangents
o Find the lengths of segments associated with circles
o Write the equation of a circle and to find the center and radius of a circle