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CCLS High School Geometry
The fundamental purpose of the course in Geometry is to formalize and extend students’ geometric experiences from the middle grades. Students explore more complex geometric situations and deepen their explanations of geometric relationships, moving towards formal mathematical arguments. Important differences exist between this Geometry course and the historical approach taken in Geometry classes. For example, transformations are emphasized early in this course. Close attention should be paid to the introductory content for the Geometry conceptual category found in the high school CCSS. The Mathematical Practice Standards apply throughout each course and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations. The critical areas, organized into six units are as follows.
Critical Area 1: In previous grades, students were asked to draw triangles based on given measurements. They also have prior experience with rigid motions: translations, reflections, and rotations and have used these to develop notions about what it means for two objects to be congruent. In this unit, students establish triangle congruence criteria, based on analyses of rigid motions and formal constructions. They use triangle congruence as a familiar foundation for the development of formal proof. Students prove theorems—using a variety of formats—and solve problems about triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons. They apply reasoning to complete geometric constructions and explain why they work.
Critical Area 2: Students apply their earlier experience with dilations and proportional reasoning to build a formal understanding of similarity. They identify criteria for similarity of triangles, use similarity to solve problems, and apply similarity in right triangles to understand right triangle trigonometry, with particular attention to special right triangles and the Pythagorean theorem. Students develop the Laws of Sines and Cosines in order to find missing measures of general (not necessarily right) triangles, building on students’ work with quadratic equations done in the first course. They are able to distinguish whether three given measures (angles or sides) define 0, 1, 2, or infinitely many triangles.
Critical Area 3: Students’ experience with two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects is extended to include informal explanations of circumference, area and volume formulas. Additionally, students apply their knowledge of two-dimensional shapes to consider the shapes of cross-sections and the result of rotating a two-dimensional object about a line.
Critical Area 4: Building on their work with the Pythagorean theorem in 8th grade to find distances, students use a rectangular coordinate system to verify geometric relationships, including properties of special triangles and quadrilaterals and slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines, which relates back to work done in the first course. Students continue their study of quadratics by connecting the geometric and algebraic definitions of the parabola.
Critical Area 5: In this unit students prove basic theorems about circles, such as a tangent line is perpendicular to a radius, inscribed angle theorem, and theorems about chords, secants, and tangents dealing with segment lengths and angle measures. They study relationships among segments on chords, secants, and tangents as an application of similarity. In the Cartesian coordinate system, students use the distance formula to write the equation of a circle when given the radius and the coordinates of its center. Given an equation of a circle, they draw the graph in the coordinate plane, and apply techniques for solving quadratic equations, which relates back to work done in the first course, to determine intersections between lines and circles or parabolas and between two circles.
Critical Area 6: Building on probability concepts that began in the middle grades, students use the languages of set theory to expand their ability to compute and interpret theoretical and experimental probabilities for compound events, attending to mutually exclusive events, independent events, and conditional probability. Students should make use of geometric probability models wherever possible. They use probability to make informed decisions.
Unit 1: Foundations of Geometry
Students present correct mathematical arguments in a variety of forms.
Students understand and use appropriate language, representations, and terminology when describing objects, relationships, mathematical solutions, and geometric diagrams.
Students use physical objects, diagrams, charts, tables, graphs, symbols, equations, and objects created using technology as representations of mathematical concepts.
Students choose an effective approach to solve a problem from a variety of strategies (numeric, graphic, algebraic).
Students understand and make connections among multiple representations of the same mathematical idea.
Students construct a bisector of a given angle, using a straightedge and compass, and justify the construction.
Students communicate logical arguments clearly, showing why a result makes sense and why the reasoning is valid.
Students understand and make connections among multiple representations of the same mathematical idea.
Students recognize and apply mathematics to situations in the outside world.
Students investigate, justify, and apply the Pythagorean theorem and its converse.
Students find the midpoint of a line segment, given its endpoints.
Students find the length of a line segment, given its endpoints.
Students define, investigate, justify, and apply isometries in the plane (rotations, reflections, translations, glide reflections) Note: Use proper function notation.
Students identify specific isometries by observing orientation, numbers of invariant points, and/or parallelism.
Students know and apply that if a line is perpendicular to each of two intersecting lines at their point of intersection, then the line is perpendicular to the plane determined by them.
Students know and apply that through a given point there passes one and only one plane perpendicular to a given line.
Students know and apply that two lines perpendicular to the same plane are coplanar.
Students know and apply that two planes are perpendicular to each other if and only if one plane contains a line perpendicular to the second plane.
Students know and apply that if a line is perpendicular to a plane, then any line perpendicular to the given line at its point of intersection with the given plane is in the given plane.
Students know and apply that if a line is perpendicular to a plane, then every plane containing the line is perpendicular to the given plane.
Students know and apply that if a plane intersects two parallel planes, then the intersection is two parallel lines.
Students know and apply that if two planes are perpendicular to the same line, they are parallel.
Unit 2: Logic and Reasoning
2005 Standards / CCLSStudents recognize and verify, where appropriate, geometric relationships of perpendicularity, parallelism, congruence, and similarity, using algebraic strategies.
Students investigate and evaluate conjectures in mathematical terms, using mathematical strategies to reach a conclusion.
Students devise ways to verify results or use counterexamples to refute incorrect statements.
Students apply inductive reasoning in making and supporting mathematical conjectures.
Students know and apply the conditions under which a compound statement (conjunction, disjunction, conditional, biconditional) is true.
Identify and write the inverse, converse, and contrapositive of a given conditional statement and note the logical equivalences.
Students evaluate written arguments for validity.
Students determine the negation of a statement and establish its truth value.
Students construct various types of reasoning, arguments, justifications, and methods of proof for problems.
Students recognize that mathematical ideas can be supported by a variety of strategies.
Students present correct mathematical arguments in a variety of forms.
Students write a proof arguing from a given hypothesis to a given conclusion.
Unit 3: Geometry of the Coordinate Plane
2005 Standards / CCLSStudents determine if two lines cut by a transversal are parallel, based on the measure of given pairs of angles formed by the transversal and the lines.
Students construct the perpendicular bisector of a given segment, using a straightedge and compass, and justify the construction.
Students construct lines parallel (or perpendicular) to a given line through a given point, using a straightedge and compass, and justify the construction.
Students find the slope of a perpendicular line, given the equation of a line.
Students determine whether two lines are parallel, perpendicular, or neither, given their equations.
Students find the equation of a line, given a point on the line and the equation of a line perpendicular to the given line.
Students find the equation of a line, given a point on the line and the equation of a line parallel to the desired line.
Students solve systems of equations involving one linear equation and one quadratic equation graphically. / Prove geometric theorems.
Encourage multiple ways of writing proofs, such as in narrative paragraphs, using flow diagrams, in two-column format, and using diagrams without words. Students should be encouraged to focus on the validity of the underlying reasoning while exploring a variety of formats for expressing that reasoning. Implementation of G.CO.10 may be extended to include
concurrence of perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors as preparation for
G.C.3 in Unit 5.
G.CO.9 Prove theorems about lines and angles. Theorems include: vertical angles are congruent; when a transversal crosses parallel lines, alternate interior angles are congruent and corresponding angles are congruent; points on a perpendicular bisector of a line segment are exactly those equidistant from the segment’s endpoints.
Make geometric constructions.
Build on prior student experience with simple constructions. Emphasize the ability to formalize and explain how these constructions result in the desired objects. Some of these constructions are closely related to previous standards and can be introduced in conjunction with them.
G.CO.12 Make formal geometric constructions with a variety of tools and methods (compass and straightedge, string, reflective devices, paper folding, dynamic geometric software, etc.). Copying a segment; copying an angle; bisecting a segment; bisecting an angle; constructing perpendicular lines, including the perpendicular bisector of a line segment; and constructing a line parallel to a given line through a point not on the line.
Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically.
This unit has a close connection with the next unit. For example, a
curriculum might merge G.GPE.1 and the Unit 5 treatment of G.GPE.4 with the standards in this unit. Reasoning with triangles in this unit is limited
to right triangles; e.g., derive the equation for a line through two points using similar right triangles. Relate work on parallel lines in G.GPE.5 to work on A.REI.5 in High School Algebra I involving systems of equations having no solution or infinitely many solutions.
G.GPE.7 provides practice with the distance formula and its connection with the Pythagorean theorem.
G.GPE.4 Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically. For example, prove or disprove that a figure defined by four given points in the coordinate plane is a rectangle; prove or disprove that the point (1, √3) lies on the circle centered at the origin and containing the point (0, 2).
G.GPE.5 Prove the slope criteria for parallel and perpendicular lines and uses them to solve geometric problems (e.g., find the equation of a line parallel or perpendicular to a given line that passes through a given point).
G.GPE.6 Find the point on a directed line segment between two given points that partitions the segment in a given ratio.
G.GPE.7 Use coordinates to compute perimeters of polygons and areas of triangles and rectangles, e.g., using the distance formula.★ Translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section.
The directrix should be parallel to a coordinate axis.
G.GPE.2 Derive the equation of a parabola given a focus and directrix.
Unit 4: Triangle Congruence
2005 Standards / CCLSStudents construct an equilateral triangle, using a straightedge and compass, and justify the construction.
Students investigate, justify, and apply theorems about the sum of the measures of the angles of a triangle.
Students investigate, justify, and apply theorems about geometric inequalities, using the exterior angle theorem.
Students write a proof arguing from a given hypothesis to a given conclusion.
Students determine the congruence of two triangles by using one of the five congruence techniques (SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL), given sufficient information about the sides and/or angles of two congruent triangles.
Students identify corresponding parts of congruent triangles.
Students investigate, justify, and apply the isosceles triangle theorem and its converse. / Prove geometric theorems.
Encourage multiple ways of writing proofs, such as in narrative paragraphs, using flow diagrams, in two-column format, and using diagrams without words. Students should be encouraged to focus on the validity of the underlying reasoning while exploring a variety of formats for expressing that reasoning. Implementation of G.CO.10 may be extended to include
concurrence of perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors as preparation for
G.C.3 in Unit 5.
G.CO.10 Prove theorems about triangles. Theorems include: measures of interior angles of a triangle sum to 180°; base angles of isosceles triangles are congruent; the segment joining midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half the length; the medians of a triangle meet at a point.
Unit 5: Triangle Properties
Students investigate and apply the concurrence of medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors of triangles.
Students write a proof arguing from a given hypothesis to a given conclusion.
Students find the equation of a line that is the perpendicular bisector of a line segment, given the endpoints of the line segment.
Students investigate and apply the concurrence of medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors of triangles.
Students investigate, justify, and apply theorems about the centroid of a triangle, dividing each median into segments whose lengths are in the ratio 2:1.
Students find the midpoint of a line segment, given its endpoints.
Students investigate, justify, and apply theorems about geometric relationships, based on the properties of the line segment joining the midpoints of two sides of the triangle.
Students investigate, justify, and apply theorems about proportional relationships among the segments of the sides of the triangle, given one or more lines parallel to one side of a triangle and intersecting the other two sides of the triangle.
Students investigate, justify, and apply the properties of triangles and quadrilaterals in the coordinate plane, using the distance, midpoint, and slope formulas.
Students construct a proof using a variety of methods (e.g., deductive, analytic, transformational).
Students investigate, justify, and apply the triangle inequality theorem.
Students determine either the longest side of a triangle given the three angle measures or the largest angle given the lengths of three sides of a triangle.
Students recognize that mathematical ideas can be supported by a variety of strategies.
Students investigate, justify, and apply the Pythagorean theorem and its converse. / Prove geometric theorems.
Encourage multiple ways of writing proofs, such as in narrative paragraphs, using flow diagrams, in two-column format, and using diagrams without words. Students should be encouraged to focus on the validity of the underlying reasoning while exploring a variety of formats for expressing that reasoning. Implementation of G.CO.10 may be extended to include
concurrence of perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors as preparation for
G.C.3 in Unit 5.
Unit 6: Quadrilaterals