Course Title: Geometry
Grade: 8
Credits: 1
A. Course Description:
Geometry is a survey of Geometry, emphasizing the history of mathematics and proofs.
B. Course Objectives/Methods:
Geometry is a broad overview of the study of shape. It includes a general history of mathematics, the study of line, angle, and a variety of shapes. The derivation of theorems and justification of information is accomplished by proofs. This leads to a natural discussion of the nature of mathematics as a formal language. Emphasis will be placed on formal construction.
C. Course Goals:
Students will be able to do the Following:
- Recognize the order, design, and beauty in the world around us, both in nature and in man-made inventions.
- Recognize uses of geometry in man made construction
- Construct a variety of shapes and lines with given criteria
- Develop construction skills to the extent that new constructions can be made based on previous knowledge
- Express abstract thought precisely in formal proofs.
- Memorize tens of theorems necessary to write proofs.
- Utilize triangle congruence as a means to describe larger shapes.
- Understand geometrical relationships by means of geometry problems.
D. Teacher Materials:
Geometry, University of Chicago School of Mathematics.
E. Student Materials:
Geometry, University of Chicago School of Mathematics.
Euclid's 13 Elements, book 1.
Compass, protractor and straight edge
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