Level 2 Geometry

Schedule through the final

2008-05-30T11:15:00.001-07:00

Here is the schedule for the rest of the school year:

6/02 Trigonometry Quiz
6/03 Review Day 1 (MCAS then Hr G H E)
6/04 Review Day 2 (MCAS then E F A D)
6/05 no class
6/06 Start old final for practice HW finish old final

6/09 Go over old final
6/10 Last Day of Review for last questions
6/11 English Final 8am Science Final 11am
6/12 Spanish/French Final 8am Math Final 11am in room 712
6/13 SocStds Final 8am ForLang2 Final 11am

6/16 Last day of school
6/17 Get your grades

Our last topic: Trigonometry

2008-05-19T12:54:00.000-07:00

We have one more topic before we start reviewing for the final: Trigonometry. It is a topic that makes use of the fact that all similar triangles have the same angles. We will be dealing with right triangles most of the time so the Special Right Triangles, the Pythagorean Theorem, and radicals will be important.

This unit is all worksheet based so all of the homework is to do/finish the worksheet

5/19 Radical Practice
5/20 No class do to schedule shift for MCAS
5/21 Math MCAS Day 1, class at 10:25am, Right Triangle Practice
5/22 Math MCAS Day 2, no class
5/23 US Hist. MCAS (juniors), class at 10:25am, Intro to Trigonometry

5/26 Memorial Day, no school
5/27 More practice plus finding angles using trig
5/28 More practice finding angles
5/30 Applications of trig (using it to solve word problems)

6/02 Trig Quiz

After this we will review for five class periods (including taking an old final).

Similarity

2008-04-28T19:30:00.001-07:00

Our next topic is Similarity (things that have the same shape but different size). Most of the homework will be to finish the worksheet given in class (unless posted otherwise).

Given that MCAS is coming, we will move our weekly quizzes to Wednesdays and have MCAS Practice every Friday until the actual test.

4/28 Fraction Practice
4/29 Ratio and Proportion (notes and worksheet)
4/30 Intro to Similarity (notes and worksheet)
5/02 MCAS Practice

5/05 Similarity Practice
5/06 More complicated Similarity Practice
5/07 Similar Polygons
5/09 MCAS Practice

5/12 Special (similar) Right Triangles
5/13 More Practice
5/14 Similarity Quiz
5/16 MCAS Practice

We will have class three times during MCAS week where we will start learning trigonometry (our last topic). The Math MCAS for sophomores is on 5/21 and 5/22. On Friday, 5/23 there will be a US History MCAS for Juniors.

Slight Change in Transformation Schedule

2008-04-07T19:16:00.000-07:00

There is a slight change in the schedule. On Tuesday, 4/08, instead of looking at Dilations, we will be working with isometries (really just another way to describe what we have been doing). The homework will be a worksheet.

Transformation and Tessellations

2008-04-01T09:33:00.000-07:00

For the next three weeks leading up to vacation, we will work with Transformations and Tessellations. Transformations are ways of changing a figure by moving, reflecting, rotating, and dilating it. Tessellations are figures that "tile." They fit together because of the transformations used to create them.

3/31 Intro to Transformations HW finish worksheet
4/01 Computer Lab Intro (room 700) HW finish lab
4/02 Translations HW p.155-157/9-19,22-25,32,38,42-44,48
4/04 Quick Quiz, Reflections and Symmetry HW p.286-8/8-19,21-31

4/07 Rotations HW 11.8 Practice A Worksheet
4/08 Dilations HW p.396-397/6-14
4/09 Mixed Transformations Practice HW finish worksheet
4/11 Quick Quiz, start Tessellation Project

4/14 Work on Tessellation Project
4/15 Schindler's List In-School Field Trip (work on project if in class)
4/16 Present and pass in Tessellation Project
4/18 MFA Field Trip (Transformation in Art)

4/19-4/27 April Vacation

Net Project

2008-03-24T15:01:00.000-07:00

This week during MCAS we will be working on a Net project. Be creative! We will work on it in class but you may need to do some of the calculations and the decorating at home. Remember, it is due on Monday, March 31st.

SA and Volume Test

2008-03-17T10:57:00.000-07:00

This week is all about putting together everything that we have learned about Surface Area and Volume.

3/17 Review Packet of problems
HW Finish packet and make notecard

3/18 Matho
HW Study

3/19 Test of Surface Area and Volume of Solids

3/21 Good Friday - no school

Volume Week

2008-03-10T06:33:00.000-07:00

This week we will look at the volume of all the solids we have studied: prism, cylinder, pyramid, and cone. We will also learn the formula for the surface area and volume of a sphere.

3/10 Volume of Prisms and Cylinders CW even on worksheet
           HW odds on worksheet

3/11 Volume of Pyramids and Cones CW even on worksheet
           HW odds on worksheet

3/12 Volume Notes, SA and Volume of Spheres, Mixed Practice
           HW p.520-522/16-28, 37-42

3/14 Volume Quiz, MCAS Practice
           Extra Credit of Mixed Area and Volume

Cylinders and Cones

2008-03-03T14:53:00.000-08:00

This week we will add the surface area of solids with circular bases:
cylinders and cones.

3/03 Notes on the Surface Area of Prisms and Cylinders, Pyramids and Cones
HW Worksheet of problems

3/04 More Practice and Missing Variable problems
HW Draw and Solve one cylinder and two cone problems

3/05 Mixed Surface Area problems (all solids)
HW Practice worksheet

3/07 Surface Area Quiz
Start MCAS Review

More with Surface Area

2008-02-26T19:23:00.001-08:00

We are continuing to work with Surface Area. This week we will add circles so that we can do the surface area of cones and cylinders (and wedges of cheese).

2/25 Review of area and surface area HW draw three prism and find their surface area

2/26 Surface area of pyramids HW draw three pyramids and find their surface area

2/27 Area and circumference of circles HW finish worksheet

2/29 Surface area quiz, more with circles and sector area HW finish worksheet

Surface Area and Nets

2008-02-14T14:33:00.001-08:00

We are starting to use our area skills to find surface area. We can also use nets, unfolded solids, as another way to find surface area. We will have handouts for homework everyday.

2/11 Nets of Cubes, Intro to Surface Area
2/12 Nets of Prisms and Pyramids to find SA
2/13 Surface Area in a House (paint and carpeting)
2/15 Finish House SA, Quick Quiz

2/16-2/24 February Vacation

Exploring Area

2008-01-29T10:07:00.001-08:00

We will be spending the next two weeks working with area. This will prepare us for Surface Area and Volume. Most of the homework will be worksheets. This term the notes are lilac.

1/29 Area of Rectangles and Squares (and Triangles)
1/30 Area of Parallelograms and Trapezoids
2/01 Quad Area Quiz, Discovering Polygon Area

2/04 Polygon Area
2/05 Mixed Practice with Area
2/06 More mixed practice with area
2/08 Big Area Quiz, Nets of Cubes with Polyhedra

Changing the schedule for the snow day

2008-01-23T16:05:00.001-08:00

Our schedule is off a bit due to the snow day on the 14th. The test is now on Monday, January 28th.

After the test we will move on to area.

Polygons and Quadrilaterals

2008-01-07T07:16:00.000-08:00

We came back from vacation and played with polygons. We will focus on a specific kind of polygon, the quadrilateral. The next three weeks will be spent learning about quadrilaterals. Here is the proposed syllabus. Most of the homework will be worksheets though there will be book problems occasionally.

1/04 Polygon Exploration (no homework)

1/07 Finish polygon notes, Quadrilateral Exploration
1/08 Parallelograms
1/09 "Special" Parallelograms: Rectangles, Rhombuses, Squares
1/11 Quad Quiz 1

1/14 Trapezoids: general and isosceles
1/15 Algebra and Quadrilaterals
1/16 Graphing Quadrilaterals (graphing lines)
1/18 Quad Quiz 2, End of Term 2

1/21 Martin Luther King Day (no school)
1/22 Mixed Review of Quadrilaterals
1/23 Matho and notecards
1/25 Quad Test

Moving to Proofs

2007-12-13T06:52:00.001-08:00

We will spend two weeks preparing for proofs and one week doing them. The first week is spent understanding congruence statements. The second week is spent amassing theorems and postulates that we can use as reasons in our proofs. The week before vacation is spent doing proofs. If they go well, we will have a test and move on after vacation. If they don't go well, we will have the usual Friday quiz and work on them after vacation as well.

Everyday the homework is to finish the worksheets given out in class.

12/03 Intro to Proof through Fox Trot Cartoons (put them in order)
12/04 Congruence Statements Notes
12/05 Proving Triangles are Congruent Activity
12/07 Congruence Statements Quiz, Logic Problem Extra Credit

12/10 "What Else" Activity
12/11 Hypotenuse-Leg Theorem
12/12 Reflexive, Symmetric, and Transitive Properties
12/14 Triangle Congruence Quiz, Pre-Proof Review Assignment

12/17 Intro to Flow-Chart and Two Column Proofs
12/18 Proof Activities Day 2
12/19 Proof Activities Day 3
12/21 Congruence and Proof Full Block Quiz

12/22 through 1/1 Vacation
1/02 Parent Conferences

Finishing up with triangle information (for now)

2007-11-23T19:09:00.001-08:00

We are finishing up with all of our techniques for describing triangles and will be having a test (rather than a quiz) on Friday the 30th.

11/19 Patty Paper Activity to explore the centroid and the incenter
11/20 The Centroid (from medians) HW finish packet
11/21 Half Day A C F H (no class)
11/22 Thanksgiving

11/26 Review everything we know about triangles
11/27 Matho and notecards for the test
11/28 Professional Development Day - no school
11/30 Triangle Test

After this we will work through creating our own theorems about
triangles.

More with Triangles and Square Roots

2007-11-11T06:04:00.000-08:00

It's a short week because of Veterans' Day and we will continue looking at triangles and the uses of squares and square roots. We will continue to work on worksheets so finishing them is your homework every night.

11/12 Veterans' Day - no school
11/13 More practice with square roots
11/14 Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem
11/16 Quick Quiz

Exploring Triangles

2007-11-06T13:14:00.000-08:00

We are exploring the ways of naming triangles and some of the properties of triangles this week.

11/5 Classifying triangles HW finish packet

11/6 Computer Lab explorations HW none

11/7 Right triangle properties HW finish worksheets

11/9 Quick Quiz HW practice with estimating square roots

Statements and Converses

2007-10-30T13:37:00.001-07:00

This week we are looking a logic from a geometry standpoint.

10/29 Review and Triangle Sum Worksheet, Converse Notes

10/30 Intro to writing Statements and their Converses

10/31 Conditional Notes and Practice

11/02 Quick Quiz on Converses

More work with parallel lines

2007-10-23T13:25:00.000-07:00

We spend a week working with harder parallel line problems. The homework every day is to finish whatever handout or worksheet was started in class.

10/22 Parallel lines in more complicated diagrams

10/23 Shapes/Polygons with parallel sides

10/24 Graphing parallel and perpendicular lines

10/26 Quiz of this week's topics plus an extra credit worksheet

Angles with Parallel Lines

2007-10-16T07:36:00.001-07:00

We learned about the names of angle pairs formed when three lines intersect. Now we will see what happens when two of the lines are parallel.

10/15 HW p.133-135/19-31 odd, 32-37, 47-50

10/16 HW finish "Angles from 3 Lines Practice"

10/17 HW finish "More Practice" worksheet

10/19 Quick Quiz on angle pairs and parallel lines

Angles, Angles, Angles

2007-10-13T19:59:00.001-07:00

We spent the week looking at complementary, supplementary, vertical, and adjacent pairs of angles. We also looked at angle bisectors and linear pairs.

Here is the schedule:

10/01 Vertical angles with Algebra HW Angle Relationships Wrksht
10/02 Angles Bisectors HW p.677-678/1-3, 10-20
10/03 Last Practice HW finish worksheets
10/04 Quick Quiz, note cards, MATHO
10/09 Angle Test

10/10 Practice/Review Naming and Marking figures
10/12 Angles from Transversals HW 3.3 Practice B Worksheet

10/15 Start Parallel Lines

More with angles

2007-10-01T19:41:00.001-07:00

We will continue practicing with our angle pairs: adjacent, complementary, supplementary, vertical. Some of the problems involve algebra, some are word problems.

Start the week with classwork using algebra and vertical pairs.
The homework is a worksheet about angle relationships.

Continuing on with Angles

2007-09-24T14:44:00.001-07:00

This week we will continue working with angles and various ways of finding their measure (how many degrees they have). Any worksheets that are not finished in class should be finished at home.

9/24 Complementary and Supplementary worksheets.
9/25 Opposite Angles, Marking Angles, Angles with Algebra
9/26 Complementary and Supplementary Word Problems
9/28 Quick Quiz; More practice

Starting work with angles

2007-09-21T10:34:00.001-07:00

We are starting to look at angles. There is a lot of vocabulary
associated with angles, particularly about pairs of angles. Make sure you have complete note sheets.

9/19 Naming and measuring angles
           HW finish worksheet with protractor on one side

9/21 Angle vocabulary
          CW/HW Worksheets about adjacent, complementary
                       and supplementary angles