Geometry Units
All of the units for the Geometry curriculum are listed below. Click on the standard to get access to the video lesson, flipchart PDF, lesson questions, and homework practice. If you are looking for retake assignments please go to the retake request page in the Geometry drop down menu and look for the appropriate one.
Unit 1: Basic Geometry
Description: This unit will discuss basic definitions and concepts of Geometry. The definitions, skills, and notation learned will be used throughout the course.
Big Idea: Basic elements of geometry are seen everywhere in the world and their mathematical properties help with identifying unknown quantities.
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Description: This unit will discuss basic definitions and concepts of Geometry. The definitions, skills, and notation learned will be used throughout the course.
Big Idea: Basic elements of geometry are seen everywhere in the world and their mathematical properties help with identifying unknown quantities.
Essential Questions:
- What is the purpose of having a field of mathematics dedicated to modeling geometric figures and space?
Unit 2: Quadrilaterals
Description: This unit will discuss properties and theorems related to quadrilaterals. Students will use these properties to help write proofs and solve for different aspects of the quadrilaterals.
Big Idea: Basic elements of geometry are seen everywhere in the world and their mathematical properties help with identifying unknown quantities.
Essential Questions:
Description: This unit will discuss properties and theorems related to quadrilaterals. Students will use these properties to help write proofs and solve for different aspects of the quadrilaterals.
Big Idea: Basic elements of geometry are seen everywhere in the world and their mathematical properties help with identifying unknown quantities.
Essential Questions:
- How does understanding properties of parallel lines help when working with quadrilaterals?
- Why is the use of proofs important to the field of mathematics?
Unit 4: Triangles
Description: This unit gets students use to proof writing. Students will use triangle postulates and theorems to help find missing parts of triangles as well as prove triangles are congruent.
Big Idea: Basic elements of geometry are seen everywhere in the world and their mathematical properties help with identifying unknown quantities.
Essential Questions:
Description: This unit gets students use to proof writing. Students will use triangle postulates and theorems to help find missing parts of triangles as well as prove triangles are congruent.
Big Idea: Basic elements of geometry are seen everywhere in the world and their mathematical properties help with identifying unknown quantities.
Essential Questions:
- Draw examples of each triangle congruence theorem.
Unit 5: Similarity in Triangles
Description: In this unit students will focus on characteristics of triangles beyond perimeter and area.
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Description: In this unit students will focus on characteristics of triangles beyond perimeter and area.
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Unit 6: Right Triangle Trigonometry
Description: In this unit students will focus on using trigonometry to find parts of right triangles.
Big Idea: The six trig functions are based off of triangular measurements. Using this idea, one can find any part of a right triangle given 2 other parts.
Essential Questions:
Description: In this unit students will focus on using trigonometry to find parts of right triangles.
Big Idea: The six trig functions are based off of triangular measurements. Using this idea, one can find any part of a right triangle given 2 other parts.
Essential Questions:
- Give examples of situations where a right triangle be used to find unknowns.
- What is the relationship between a right triangle and sin, cos, and tan of an angle of that triangle?