Geometry Scope and Sequence

Students will be able to:

  • Derive and use the distance, slope and midpoint formulas in one- and two-dimensional coordinate systems.
  • Use distance, slope and midpoint formulas to verify geometric relationships, including congruence of segments and parallelism or perpendicularity of pairs of lines.
  • Determine an equation of a line parallel or perpendicular to a given line that passes through a given point.
  • Distinguish between undefined terms, definitions, postulates, conjectures and theorems.


Activities

  • Exploring Linear Functions
  • Points, Lines and Angles—Always,Sometimes,Never
  • Slopes of Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Inquiry
  • Understanding the Distance Formula

Students will be able to:

  • Identify the converse, inverse and contrapositive of a conditional statement, and determine its validity.
  • Recognize a biconditional statement as a true conditional statement with a true converse.
  • Use counterexamples to verify that a conjecture is false.

Activities

  • Conditional Statements
  • Conditionals in Mathematics
  • OnOneCondition

Students will be able to:

  • Use a compass and straightedge to construct segments, congruent angles, segment and angle bisectors, perpendicular lines and perpendicular bisectors, and lines parallel to a given line through a point not on the line; use the constructions to make conjectures about geometric relationships.
  • Analyze patterns of angle measures to make conjectures about angles formed by intersecting lines and parallel lines cut by a transversal.
  • Verify theorems and solve problems about angles formed by parallel lines and transversals and use these relationships to solve problems.
  • Prove equidistance between the endpoints of a segment and points on its perpendicular bisector and use this relationship to solve problems.
  • Derive formulas for the measures of interior and exterior angles of polygons.
  • Explore relationships created by special segments of triangles and diagonals of quadrilaterals.

Activities

  • Basic Geometric Constructions
  • Angles in a Triangle
  • Angles and Lines at a Point
  • Angles of Polygons
  • Transversals

Students will be able to:

  • Verify the Triangle Inequality Theorem and apply it to solve problems.
  • Determine the conditions required for triangle congruence.
  • Prove two triangles are congruent by applying the triangle congruence conditions.
  • Identify congruent figures and their corresponding sides and angles.
  • Prove segments or angles congruent by applying the corresponding parts theorem.
  • Verify theorems about relationships in triangles, including the sum of interior angles, base angles of isosceles triangles, midsegments, and medians, and use these relationships to solve problems.

Activities

  • Triangle Sides and Angles
  • Interior and Exterior Angles of a Triangle
  • Congruent or Not

Students will be able to:

  • Describe and perform transformations of figures in a plane using coordinate notation.
  • Determine the image or pre-image of a two-dimensional figure under a composition of transformations.
  • Identify the sequence of transformations that will carry a  given pre-image onto an image.
  • Apply the definition of congruence, in terms of rigid transformations, to identify congruent figures and their corresponding parts.
  • Distinguish between reflectional and rotational symmetry in a plane figure.

Activities

  • Reflections
  • Rotations
  • Scale Factor
  • Transformations

Students will be able to:

  • Apply the definition of similarity in terms of a dilation to identify similar figures and their proportional sides and the congruent corresponding angles.
  • Prove the Angle-Angle Theorem and the Triangle Proportionality Theorem and apply them to solve problems.
  • Identify and apply the relationships that exist when an altitude is drawn to the hypotenuse of a right triangle, including the geometric mean, to solve problems.

Activities

  • Midsegments of Triangles
  • Sidesplitter Theorem
  • Geometric Mean

Students will be able to:

  • Explore proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem.
  • Use Pythagorean triples, the Pythagorean Theorem, and the converse of Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems involving the measures of the sides and angles of a right triangle.
  • Apply the relationships in special right triangles (30-60-90 and 45-45-90) to solve problems.
  • Determine the measures of the sides and angles of a right triangle by applying the trigonometric ratios (sine, cosine, tangent).

Activities

  • Pythagorean Theorem
  • Special Right Triangles
  • Trig Ratios

Students will be able to:

  • Prove a quadrilateral is a parallelogram, rectangle, square or rhombus using opposite sides, opposite angles, or diagonals.
  • Apply theorems about quadrilaterals to solve problems.

Activities

  • Parallelogram Properties Interactive Worksheet
  • Properties of Parallelograms
  • Rhombi, Kites and Trapezoids
  • Quadrilateral Property Sort
  • Working with Quadrilaterals Circuit Training

Students will be able to:

  • Investigate patterns in special segments and angle measures of circles.
  • Apply theorems about circles, including relationships among angles, radii, chords, tangents, and secants, to solve problems.
  • Apply the proportional relationship between the measure of an arc length and the circumference of a circle to solve problems.
  • Describe radian measure of an angle as the ratio of the length of an arc intercepted by a central angle and the radius of the circle.
  • Relate the equation of a circle to the distance formula.
  • Determine the equation for the graph of a circle.

Activities

  • Circle Vocabulary Activity
  • Angles and Arcs
  • Circle Product Theorems
  • Putting It All Together (Circles)

Students will be able to:

  • Derive and apply the formulas for the area of regular polygons to solve problems using appropriate units of measure.
  • Determine the area of composite two-dimensional figures comprised of a combination of polygons and/or sectors of circles to solve problems, using appropriate units of measure.

Activities

  • Area of a Regular Polygon
  • Boardroom Table
  • Arcs, Sector Areas and Segment Areas Grudgeball

Students will be able to:

  • Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, and spheres.
  • Identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional shapes.
  • Derive and apply the formulas for the total and lateral surface area of three-dimensional prisms, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, and composite figures to solve problems, using appropriate units of measure.
  • Derive and apply the formulas for the volume of three-dimensional figures, including prisms, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, and composite figures, to solve problems, using appropriate units of measure.
  • Determine how changes in the linear dimensions of a shape affect its perimeter, area or volume, including proportional and non-proportional dimensional change.

Activities

  • Surface Area of a Cylinder
  • Family Tent Quandary
  • Volume of Solids Chain Activity
  • Wax Museum
  • Making a Splash

Students will be able to:

  • Develop strategies to use permutations and combinations to solve problems.
  • Determine probabilities based on area to solve contextual problems.
  • Identify whether two events are independent and compute the probability of two events occurring together with or without replacement.
  • Apply conditional probability to solve contextual problems.
  • Apply independence in contextual problems.

Activities

  • Permutations and Combinations Formula Discovery
  • Coin Toss Games
  • Permutations and Combinations Calculator Activity