Honors Common Core Geometry

2016-2017 Course Syllabus

Honors Common Core Geometry

Course Description

In alignment with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), students will work through the Big Ideas and College Preparatory Mathematics (CPM) curriculum titled Geometry. Students will work through units of study comprised of problem-based lessons, collaborative student work, homework quizzes, student presentations, team tests, individual tests, checkpoint quizzes and homework assignments. All homework assignments will contain a review and preview of skills that students see throughout the course.

Key concepts addressed in this course are:

• Geometric transformations (reflection, rotation, translation, dilation) and symmetry
• Relationships between figures (such as similarity and congruence) in terms of rigid motions and similarity transformations
• Properties of plane figures
• Proofs of geometric theorems (investigating patterns to make conjectures, and formally proving them)
• Using coordinates to prove geometric theorems
• Modeling with geometry
• Measurements of plane figures (such as area, perimeter, and angle measure)
• Theorems about circles, including arc lengths and areas of sectors
• Measurements of three-dimensional solids (such as volume and surface area)
• Tools for analyzing and measuring right triangles, general triangles, and complex shapes (such as the Pythagorean Theorem, trigonometric ratios, and the Laws of Sines and Cosines)
• Geometric constructions (with compass and straightedge)
• Using algebra to formulate and solve equations arising from geometric situations.
• Probability (independence and conditional probability, compound events, expected value, and permutations and combinations)
 

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