GEOMETRY

2005 – 2006

Course Goals:

• Students will understand the properties of figures relating to shape, size, location, direction, and orientation. (7.7)

• Students will work with basic types of solid and plane figures, and with geometric patterns involving such figures. (7.7)

• Students will use relationships between figures that involve congruence, similarity, projections, and transformations. (7.7)

• Students will use quotient measures (e.g., slope and “per unit” amounts) and product measures (e.g., person-days). (7.7)

• Students will know, use, and derive formulas for area and volume of many kinds of figures. (7.7)

• Students will understand the structure of standard measurement systems, including basic geometric and non-geometric measures. (7.7)

• Students will analyze geometric figures and prove things about them using deductive methods. (7.7)

• Students will recognize and represent basic number patterns. (7.6)

• Students will use functions to represent patterns. (7.8)

• Students will represent functional relationships in formulas. tables, and graphs, model the given situations with functions, and interpret given function in terms of situation. (7.8)

• Students will define and use variables, parameters, constants, and unknowns in work with both functions and equations; solve equations both symbolically and graphically, especially linear and quadratic equations. (7.8)

• Students will use arithmetic and geometric sequences. (7.8)

• Students will produce solutions to mathematical problems requiring decisions about approach and presentation, so that final drafts are appropriate in terms of approach and reasoning, execution, observations, extensions, mathematical communication, and presentation. (2.5)

• Students will investigate problem-solving strategies, how to use them, including critical thinking skills. (2.2,2.3)

• Students will use technology, as appropriate with all the above skills to represent information (1.18), to organize systems (1.19), to communicate data accurately. (1.20), and to develop models (1.22).

(Number refers to the VT Framework Standard)

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Algebra I

Evaluation:

• Tests - 25%
• Homework - 15%
• Quiz - 25%
• Notebook - 10%
• Project - 15%
• Class – 10%. 
• A mid-term or final exam will count 20% of that respective semester’s grade.

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