Semester 1
Week 18
12/16 - Winter Break Begins! Have a great holiday season :)
12/14-12/15 - No Class! Good luck with your other finals
12/13 - 2nd Period Final 8-9:30am
12/12- 1st Period Final 8-9:30am, 2nd Period Review
Extra Final Practice here and here (Don't worry about constructions or proofs)
Week 17
12/9 - Final Review Day - Problem Solving Practice and Review Game
12/8 - Final Review Project Due at the End of Class!! (We will have laptops in class)
12/7 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project (We will have laptops in class)
12/6 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project (We will have laptops in class)
12/5 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project (Team Progress Check-In)
HW: Make sure your team is on track to finish by Thursday
Week 16
12/2 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project
HW: Bring 4 written problems or 2 written problems with solutions for Monday's check-in
12/1 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project
11/30 - Wrapping Up Similarity and Introduction to Final Review Project
HW: Begin brainstorming for your final review project, gather your notes and materials from the semester
11/29 - Proportional Segments on Parallel Lines Investigation
11/28 - Reinforcing Similarity with Polygons and Triangles (Available here)
HW: Finish the problem set if you were unable to finish during class
Week 15
11/23-11/25 - Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday!
11/22 - Quiz on Similarity, Review
Due: Problem Sets on Ratios/Proportions, Dilations, Similarity, Triangle Similarity (x2)
11/21 - Special Cases of Similarity (Notes here)
HW:
Week 14
11/18 - Solving Problems with Similarity
11/17 - More with Similarity
11/16 - What is similarity?, Triangle Similarity Shortcuts (Notes here and here)
11/15 - Practicing Ratios, Proportions, and Dilations
11/14 - Review of Ratios and Proportions, Intro to Dilations
HW: Stay on top of your problem sets and practice!
Week 13
11/11 - Veteran's Day: No School
11/10 - Practice ACT Math
HW:
11/9 - Test #3: Discovering and Proving Properties of Polygons
HW: None
11/8 - Election Day: No School
11/7 - Polygon Wrap-Up and Review (Optional Practice Problems, Solutions)
HW: Complete the Nation Project Evaluation Survey, Study for the test!
Week 12
11/4 - Presenting Your Nation -- Student-led review day!
Due: Unit 3 Quiz #1 Corrections
HW:
11/3 - Review and Group Project Work
HW: Finish your group projects, Quiz Corrections
11/2 - Review and Group Project Work
HW: Make progress on your group projects, Quiz Corrections
11/1 - Quadrilateral Proofs and Midsegments, Group Project Work (Slides here)
HW: Make progress on your group projects, Quiz Corrections
10/31 - 3 Hr Delay: Designing Your Nation's Flag (Rubric for Group Project here)
HW: Print out the Review Packet, Solve your assigned problem for class tomorrow
Week 11
10/28 - No School: Nevada Day
10/27 - Solving Problems with Special Quadrilaterals
HW: Have a great 3-day weekend!
10/26 - Solving Problems with Special Quadrilaterals
HW: Finish test corrections and week 11 assignment
10/25 - Solving Problems with Special Quadrilaterals (Updated Conjecture List)
HW: Test Corrections and Week 11 Assignment (we will work on this in class tomorrow, but it must be done by Thursday so I recommend you get started so you can ask questions during class)
10/24 - Creating Your Nation's Flag: Investigating Special Quadrilaterals
HW: Test Corrections!
Week 10
10/21 - Unit 3 Quiz #1 - Polygon Interior and Exterior Angles, Rotational and Reflectional Symmetry of Polygons
HW: Test Corrections (requirements: (1) problems with correct solutions, (2) explanation of your mistake(s))
10/20 - Rotational and Reflectional Symmetry of Polygons (Activity found here)
HW: Finish the Practice Quiz (solutions here), Online Practice with Rotational and Reflectional Symmetry of Polygons
10/19 - Introduction to Special Quadrilaterals and Regular Polygons (Notes here)
HW: Practice Quiz here
10/18 - Polygon Sum Conjecture (Continued) and Exterior Angle Sum Conjecture (Notes here)
HW: Polygon Angle Problems, Solutions here, Additional Honors Assignment here
10/17 - Begin Unit 3: Building a Polygon Nation, Polygon Sum Conjecture
HW: None
Week 9
10/14 - Test #2: Triangles and Proof Development
HW: None!
10/13 - Review (Ch.4 p.256 #9-29 odds, #31-32)
HW: Finish Review Packet, solutions, Updated Conjecture List (all the conjectures related to triangles sum up the material we've covered in this unit), Some 10/10 HW solutions
10/12 - Group Test: Triangle Congruence and Proof
HW: Work on Review Packet (posted on 10/11)
10/11 - Discovering Properties of Triangle Components (10/11 Notes, 10/10 Notes)
HW: Begin Review of Unit 2! Review Packet here, Additional Honors Assignment, Solutions to the Group Test
10/10 - Applying Triangle Conjectures to Proofs (Updated Conjecture List, you can use this to study for the test and to help with homework)
HW: 4.6 #1,3 and 4.7 #1-5,
Week 8
9/30 - What is CPCTC?
HW: Mid-semester Survey
9/29 - Are there congruence shortcuts for triangles?
HW:
9/28 - Unit 2 Quiz 1, How can I develop proof logic related to triangles? (Example 2 and Example 3 from class)
HW: Geometry -- p.208 #14,17,18 and p. 223 #8,9; Honors -- Do Geometry HW plus p.208 #19-22 and p.213 #10
9/27 - How can I develop proof logic relating to triangles? (Updated Conjecture List)
HW: Finish practice quiz and study! Solutions here
9/26 - No School for Students
Week 7
9/23 - Exploring properties of triangle sides and angles (Notes from 9/21-9/23 here)
HW: Practice Quiz here (Skip #11)
9/22 - Exploring properties of triangle sides and angles
HW:
9/21 - What is the Triangle Sum Conjecture and the Isosceles Triangle Conjecture?
HW: Worksheet here: Geometry (Do 4.1 #2,5,6 and 4.2 #1, 7), Honors (Do 4.1 #4,6,10,12,13 and 4.2 #3,4,8)
*Please show all your work for full credit. The rest of the worksheet is extra practice. The solutions are here.
9/20 - How do I classify triangles? (Begin Unit 2: Triangles) Triangle Pre-Test
HW: Geometry HW here, Honors HW here
9/19 - Test #1: Lines, Angles, Transformations and Proof Development
HW: None!
Week 6
9/16 - More test review
HW: Study for the test!
9/15 - Test Review and Wrap-Up from 9/14 (List of concepts here)
HW: Bring in at least one problem or concept you'd like to review; Start working on your index card cheat sheet (front and back)
9/14 - How do I divide a segment using coordinates and a given ratio?
HW: Finish the investigation #3,4,5 and Summarize the Mathematics (found here, some solutions here), Additional notes and extra practice problems here
9/13 - How do I find the midpoint of a segment using coordinates?
HW: Geometry HW #1-4,9-10 here (please show all work and check solutions), Honors HW here
9/12 - How do I find the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines? (In-class activity here)
HW: Geometry HW (Honors and Non-Honors) here
Week 5
9/9 - More Practice Using Angle Relationships to Solve Problems (practice problems here 2.5 #1,2and 2.6#1,2,4,8)
HW: On the practice problems sheet (link above), do problems 2.5 #3,5,8,9,12 and 2.6 #3,5,9
9/8 - How do I apply angle relationships to solve problems? (Use this Geometry Conjecture List as a reference)
HW: Geometry HW here, Honors HW here, Solutions for 2.5 and 2.6 here
9/7 - What are the relationships between angles on intersecting lines?
HW: Extra Credit Worksheet #1 here (due Wed 9/14), Extra Credit Worksheet #2 here (due Wed 9/14)
***Note: All extra credit assignments will be graded for accuracy not completion.
9/6 - How do deductive, inductive, and visual reasoning apply to math and real life?
HW: Geometry HW here, Honors HW here
9/5 - No School! Labor Day Holiday
Week 4
9/2 - What is deductive reasoning?
HW:
9/1 - Quiz #2: Transformations
HW:
8/31 - What are methods for performing all types of rigid transformations?
HW: Review problems, Study for the quiz
8/30 - What are methods for performing all types of rigid transformations?
HW: same as 8/29, finish the transformation worksheet
8/29 - Transformations and Congruence (investigation here)
HW: Transformation Worksheet
Week 3
8/26 - Compositions of Reflections across Parallel and Intersecting Lines
HW: None!
8/25 - Compositions of Transformations (extra example found here)
HW: Coordinate Geometry 3 #2,5
8/24 - Transformations and Ordered Pair Rules
HW: Finish the in-class investigation, also do pg.115 #1,4,6,8,12,20,25
8/23 - Introduction to Rotations and Translations (make-up investigation found here)
HW: 1.9 #22, 23
8/22 - Introduction to Transformations and Reflections
HW: 1.9 #1, 2, 3, 21
Week 2
8/19 - Quiz #1: Geometric Definitions and Constructions
HW: None!
8/18 - Review of this week's material
HW: Finish review problems, look over this week's homework and study for the quiz
Review Solutions
8/17 - Constructing Perpendicular Bisectors
HW: Perpendicular Bisector Review here, tomorrow's review problems here (I will print this out and have it in class tomorrow)
8/16 - Constructing Line Segments, Angles, and Angle Bisectors
HW: Instructions here
8/15 - Key Geometry Definitions and Naming Figures (key vocab list)
HW: Worksheet here, pdf version, Solutions
Week 1
8/12 - Review
HW:
8/11 - 1.3 More on Angles
HW: Worksheet here
8/10 - 1.2/1.3 Classifying Angles (1st Period Class Notes, 2nd Period Class Notes, sample notes here)
HW: DG Sect. 1.2 #5,32,33,35,36 HW pdf or HW docx
Solutions here
8/9 - 1.1 Building Blocks of Geometry (check out sample notes here, additional video resource here)
HW: DG pg.29-30 #19,20,27,28,32
Solutions here
8/8 - Course Information and Introduction
HW: Return signed syllabus
Week 18
12/16 - Winter Break Begins! Have a great holiday season :)
12/14-12/15 - No Class! Good luck with your other finals
12/13 - 2nd Period Final 8-9:30am
12/12- 1st Period Final 8-9:30am, 2nd Period Review
Extra Final Practice here and here (Don't worry about constructions or proofs)
Week 17
12/9 - Final Review Day - Problem Solving Practice and Review Game
12/8 - Final Review Project Due at the End of Class!! (We will have laptops in class)
12/7 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project (We will have laptops in class)
12/6 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project (We will have laptops in class)
12/5 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project (Team Progress Check-In)
HW: Make sure your team is on track to finish by Thursday
Week 16
12/2 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project
HW: Bring 4 written problems or 2 written problems with solutions for Monday's check-in
12/1 - Team Work Day for Final Review Project
11/30 - Wrapping Up Similarity and Introduction to Final Review Project
HW: Begin brainstorming for your final review project, gather your notes and materials from the semester
11/29 - Proportional Segments on Parallel Lines Investigation
11/28 - Reinforcing Similarity with Polygons and Triangles (Available here)
HW: Finish the problem set if you were unable to finish during class
Week 15
11/23-11/25 - Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday!
11/22 - Quiz on Similarity, Review
Due: Problem Sets on Ratios/Proportions, Dilations, Similarity, Triangle Similarity (x2)
11/21 - Special Cases of Similarity (Notes here)
HW:
Week 14
11/18 - Solving Problems with Similarity
11/17 - More with Similarity
11/16 - What is similarity?, Triangle Similarity Shortcuts (Notes here and here)
11/15 - Practicing Ratios, Proportions, and Dilations
11/14 - Review of Ratios and Proportions, Intro to Dilations
HW: Stay on top of your problem sets and practice!
Week 13
11/11 - Veteran's Day: No School
11/10 - Practice ACT Math
HW:
11/9 - Test #3: Discovering and Proving Properties of Polygons
HW: None
11/8 - Election Day: No School
11/7 - Polygon Wrap-Up and Review (Optional Practice Problems, Solutions)
HW: Complete the Nation Project Evaluation Survey, Study for the test!
Week 12
11/4 - Presenting Your Nation -- Student-led review day!
Due: Unit 3 Quiz #1 Corrections
HW:
11/3 - Review and Group Project Work
HW: Finish your group projects, Quiz Corrections
11/2 - Review and Group Project Work
HW: Make progress on your group projects, Quiz Corrections
11/1 - Quadrilateral Proofs and Midsegments, Group Project Work (Slides here)
HW: Make progress on your group projects, Quiz Corrections
10/31 - 3 Hr Delay: Designing Your Nation's Flag (Rubric for Group Project here)
HW: Print out the Review Packet, Solve your assigned problem for class tomorrow
Week 11
10/28 - No School: Nevada Day
10/27 - Solving Problems with Special Quadrilaterals
HW: Have a great 3-day weekend!
10/26 - Solving Problems with Special Quadrilaterals
HW: Finish test corrections and week 11 assignment
10/25 - Solving Problems with Special Quadrilaterals (Updated Conjecture List)
HW: Test Corrections and Week 11 Assignment (we will work on this in class tomorrow, but it must be done by Thursday so I recommend you get started so you can ask questions during class)
10/24 - Creating Your Nation's Flag: Investigating Special Quadrilaterals
HW: Test Corrections!
Week 10
10/21 - Unit 3 Quiz #1 - Polygon Interior and Exterior Angles, Rotational and Reflectional Symmetry of Polygons
HW: Test Corrections (requirements: (1) problems with correct solutions, (2) explanation of your mistake(s))
10/20 - Rotational and Reflectional Symmetry of Polygons (Activity found here)
HW: Finish the Practice Quiz (solutions here), Online Practice with Rotational and Reflectional Symmetry of Polygons
10/19 - Introduction to Special Quadrilaterals and Regular Polygons (Notes here)
HW: Practice Quiz here
10/18 - Polygon Sum Conjecture (Continued) and Exterior Angle Sum Conjecture (Notes here)
HW: Polygon Angle Problems, Solutions here, Additional Honors Assignment here
10/17 - Begin Unit 3: Building a Polygon Nation, Polygon Sum Conjecture
HW: None
Week 9
10/14 - Test #2: Triangles and Proof Development
HW: None!
10/13 - Review (Ch.4 p.256 #9-29 odds, #31-32)
HW: Finish Review Packet, solutions, Updated Conjecture List (all the conjectures related to triangles sum up the material we've covered in this unit), Some 10/10 HW solutions
10/12 - Group Test: Triangle Congruence and Proof
HW: Work on Review Packet (posted on 10/11)
10/11 - Discovering Properties of Triangle Components (10/11 Notes, 10/10 Notes)
HW: Begin Review of Unit 2! Review Packet here, Additional Honors Assignment, Solutions to the Group Test
10/10 - Applying Triangle Conjectures to Proofs (Updated Conjecture List, you can use this to study for the test and to help with homework)
HW: 4.6 #1,3 and 4.7 #1-5,
Week 8
9/30 - What is CPCTC?
HW: Mid-semester Survey
9/29 - Are there congruence shortcuts for triangles?
HW:
9/28 - Unit 2 Quiz 1, How can I develop proof logic related to triangles? (Example 2 and Example 3 from class)
HW: Geometry -- p.208 #14,17,18 and p. 223 #8,9; Honors -- Do Geometry HW plus p.208 #19-22 and p.213 #10
9/27 - How can I develop proof logic relating to triangles? (Updated Conjecture List)
HW: Finish practice quiz and study! Solutions here
9/26 - No School for Students
Week 7
9/23 - Exploring properties of triangle sides and angles (Notes from 9/21-9/23 here)
HW: Practice Quiz here (Skip #11)
9/22 - Exploring properties of triangle sides and angles
HW:
9/21 - What is the Triangle Sum Conjecture and the Isosceles Triangle Conjecture?
HW: Worksheet here: Geometry (Do 4.1 #2,5,6 and 4.2 #1, 7), Honors (Do 4.1 #4,6,10,12,13 and 4.2 #3,4,8)
*Please show all your work for full credit. The rest of the worksheet is extra practice. The solutions are here.
9/20 - How do I classify triangles? (Begin Unit 2: Triangles) Triangle Pre-Test
HW: Geometry HW here, Honors HW here
9/19 - Test #1: Lines, Angles, Transformations and Proof Development
HW: None!
Week 6
9/16 - More test review
HW: Study for the test!
9/15 - Test Review and Wrap-Up from 9/14 (List of concepts here)
HW: Bring in at least one problem or concept you'd like to review; Start working on your index card cheat sheet (front and back)
9/14 - How do I divide a segment using coordinates and a given ratio?
HW: Finish the investigation #3,4,5 and Summarize the Mathematics (found here, some solutions here), Additional notes and extra practice problems here
9/13 - How do I find the midpoint of a segment using coordinates?
HW: Geometry HW #1-4,9-10 here (please show all work and check solutions), Honors HW here
9/12 - How do I find the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines? (In-class activity here)
HW: Geometry HW (Honors and Non-Honors) here
Week 5
9/9 - More Practice Using Angle Relationships to Solve Problems (practice problems here 2.5 #1,2and 2.6#1,2,4,8)
HW: On the practice problems sheet (link above), do problems 2.5 #3,5,8,9,12 and 2.6 #3,5,9
9/8 - How do I apply angle relationships to solve problems? (Use this Geometry Conjecture List as a reference)
HW: Geometry HW here, Honors HW here, Solutions for 2.5 and 2.6 here
9/7 - What are the relationships between angles on intersecting lines?
HW: Extra Credit Worksheet #1 here (due Wed 9/14), Extra Credit Worksheet #2 here (due Wed 9/14)
***Note: All extra credit assignments will be graded for accuracy not completion.
9/6 - How do deductive, inductive, and visual reasoning apply to math and real life?
HW: Geometry HW here, Honors HW here
9/5 - No School! Labor Day Holiday
Week 4
9/2 - What is deductive reasoning?
HW:
9/1 - Quiz #2: Transformations
HW:
8/31 - What are methods for performing all types of rigid transformations?
HW: Review problems, Study for the quiz
8/30 - What are methods for performing all types of rigid transformations?
HW: same as 8/29, finish the transformation worksheet
8/29 - Transformations and Congruence (investigation here)
HW: Transformation Worksheet
Week 3
8/26 - Compositions of Reflections across Parallel and Intersecting Lines
HW: None!
8/25 - Compositions of Transformations (extra example found here)
HW: Coordinate Geometry 3 #2,5
8/24 - Transformations and Ordered Pair Rules
HW: Finish the in-class investigation, also do pg.115 #1,4,6,8,12,20,25
8/23 - Introduction to Rotations and Translations (make-up investigation found here)
HW: 1.9 #22, 23
8/22 - Introduction to Transformations and Reflections
HW: 1.9 #1, 2, 3, 21
Week 2
8/19 - Quiz #1: Geometric Definitions and Constructions
HW: None!
8/18 - Review of this week's material
HW: Finish review problems, look over this week's homework and study for the quiz
Review Solutions
8/17 - Constructing Perpendicular Bisectors
HW: Perpendicular Bisector Review here, tomorrow's review problems here (I will print this out and have it in class tomorrow)
8/16 - Constructing Line Segments, Angles, and Angle Bisectors
HW: Instructions here
8/15 - Key Geometry Definitions and Naming Figures (key vocab list)
HW: Worksheet here, pdf version, Solutions
Week 1
8/12 - Review
HW:
8/11 - 1.3 More on Angles
HW: Worksheet here
8/10 - 1.2/1.3 Classifying Angles (1st Period Class Notes, 2nd Period Class Notes, sample notes here)
HW: DG Sect. 1.2 #5,32,33,35,36 HW pdf or HW docx
Solutions here
8/9 - 1.1 Building Blocks of Geometry (check out sample notes here, additional video resource here)
HW: DG pg.29-30 #19,20,27,28,32
Solutions here
8/8 - Course Information and Introduction
HW: Return signed syllabus