This course is an honors-level, high-school credit course designed to prepare students to be successful in making a smooth transition into Honors Algebra II and to provide the geometric foundation for more advanced math courses in high school and in college.
The course will include the study of congruence, and similarity through the analyses of transformations and formal constructions. Students will study properties of triangles and quadrilaterals, the Pythagorean Theorem, special right triangles, and right triangle trigonometry. Additional topics include circles, coordinate geometry, area and volume of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures. Students will develop formal proofs using a variety of formats. Additionally, students will investigate truth tables, the center of triangles, the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines. The South Carolina state standards will apply throughout the course helping students to experience a coherent, useful, and logical body of knowledge that will aid the student in problem-solving situations.
Unit 1: Transformations in the Coordinate Plane
Unit 2: Congruence and Proof
Unit 3: Similarity and Right Triangle Trigonometry
Unit 4: Geometric Measurement
Unit 5: Circles
Unit 6: Describing Data