Math 118 - Elementary Geometry
-- Spring 2014 Assignments and Tasks
The Final Exam is
Friday, May 9, 1:00-3:00 pm.
- From Wednesday, Apr. 30 - Exam #3
- From Monday, Apr. 28- Axiomatic Geometry
- In-class Items: Self-Paced Lesson on Arrangements of Lines
- Review definitions from axiomatic geometry.
- Homework:
- There is no homework assignment.
- Exam #3 is Wednesday, Apr. 30.
- From Wednesday, Apr. 23 - Congruence
- In-class Items: your notes and Activity #19
- No additional reading
- Homework:
- Nothing is due for next time.
- From Monday, Apr. 21 - Congruence
- In-class Items: your notes
- Reading:
- Read Sections 12-1 and 12-2 for basic concepts only.
- NLVM's Congruence Acronym applet is available here and here is their main site.
- Homework:
- "Project 2" xeroxed handout
- Nothing is due for next time.
- From Wednesday, Apr. 16 - Symmetry
- In-class Items: Self-Paced Lesson on Symmetry
- Read Section 11-3 page 671 to the end.
- Homework:
- 11-3A and 11-3B, Problems #8, 10-13 for each
- If a figure can be rotated 36 degrees to show rotational symmetry, what other degree amounts also display its symmetry?
- Explain why the diagonals of an oblong rectangle are NOT lines of symmetry.
- Nothing is due for next time.
- From Monday, Apr. 14: Transformation Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading:
- p. 790 Example 13-6
- p. 776 Figure 13-12
- p. 777 Example 13-3
- Homework:
- Come Wednesday prepared for a POSSIBLE in-class, open notes quiz.
- From Wednesday, Apr. 9: Transformation Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading:
- Section 13-1 through Figure 13-7
- Section 13-2 through Figure 13-31
- Homework: none
- Activity #17 is due Monday as Quiz #13. Write your answers (NEATLY) on the page itself.
- Remember, the answers are notational names, not pictures.
- From Monday, Apr. 7: Coordinate Geometry
- No new reading or homework
- Quiz #12 was given in class today (Solutions).
- From Wednesday, Apr. 2: Coordinate Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading:
- Homework:
- HW #21: all pertaining to perpendiculars
- HW #22: all pertaining to perpendiculars
- Quiz #12 will be in class on Monday, Apr. 7, covering all material from coordinate geometry.
- Quiz #12 will be open notes, but it will also be TIMED.
- From Monday, Mar. 31: Coordinate Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading:
- Homework:
- HW #21: all pertaining to parallels
- HW #22: all pertaining to parallels
- Quiz #11 is due Wednesday, Apr. 2 - #1, 2, 4 ONLY
(Solutions)
- Quiz #12 will be in class on Monday, Apr. 7, covering all material from coordinate geometry.
- Quiz #12 will be open notes, but it will also be TIMED.
- From Wednesday, Mar. 26: Exam #2
- From Monday, Mar. 24: Coordinate Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading:
- Homework:
- Exam #2 is Wednesday, March 26.
- From Monday, Mar. 17 and Wednesday, Mar. 19:
SPRING BREAK - No classes
- From Wednesday, Mar. 12: Axiomatic Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Activity #7: Classifying Triangles
- Activity #8: Give each quadrilateral on this page its most SPECIALIZED name.
- Reading:
- Text page 668 Table 11-11 Triangle Definitions ONLY
- Use the ISOSCELES definition from your NOTES, not the table!
- Text page 669 Figure 11-33, but with Trapezoids NOT having any "children"
- Text page 670 School Book Page ONLY
- Homework:
- Nothing is due for next time.
- Exam #2 is Wednesday, March 26.
- From Monday, Mar. 10: Axiomatic Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes
- Reading:
- Section 11-3 subsections "More About Polygons" through "Regular Polygons"
- Geometry for Dummies' diagonal total explanation
- Section 11-4 subsection "... Interior Angles of a Convex Polygon..."
- Free Math Help's examples of interior angle problems
- Homework:
- Quiz #9 is due Wednesday, 03/12/14. (Solutions)
- Quiz #10 was a spontaneous in-class explanation today. (Solutions)
- Exam #2 is Wednesday, March 26.
- From Wednesday, Mar. 5: Axiomatic Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes
- Reading:
- Section 11-3 subsection "More About Polygons"
- Section 11-4 subsection "... Interior Angles of a Convex Polygon..."
- Homework:
- Nothing is due for next time.
- From Monday, Mar. 3: Axiomatic Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes
- Reading:
- Section 11-4 through Example 11-11.
- Homework:
- Quiz #8 is due Wednesday, 03/05/14. (Solutions)
- From Wednesday, Feb. 26: Axiomatic Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading:
- Section 2-3 Set Union and Set Intersection as needed
- Section 11-1 "Angle Measurement"
- Homework:
- 11-1A and 11-1B: #6 and #7a for each problem set
- HW #11: all
- HW #12: #1a-g
- Nothing is due for next time.
- From Monday, Feb. 24: Axiomatic Geometry
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading: Section 11-1
- Homework:
- Quiz #7 will be IN CLASS on Wednesday, 02/26/14.
(solutions)
- It will cover the definitions we've just discussed.
- It will use the diagram from Summary #3.
- It's "open notes": you can use Summaries #2-3 and HW #10.
- From Wednesday, Feb. 19: Exam #1
(solutions)
- From Monday, Feb. 17: Surface Area
- In-class Items: your notes and ...
- Reading:
- Homework:
- 14-4A: #8, 14 and 14-4B: #9ab, 10
- HW #9: page 2 - #1abde, page 3 - #1a-d, 2b, 3bc
- HW #9 assigned problems with NEAT, ORGANIZED work are due Monday, 02/24/14, as "Quiz #6." (solutions)
- Work on a separate sheet of paper, not on HW #9 itself.
- Exam #1 is
Wednesday, Feb. 19.
- From Wednesday, Feb. 12: Area
- In-class Items: only your notes
- Reading:
- Textbook Section 14-1 subsections circles and sectors
- Homework:
- Quiz #5 is due Monday, 2/17/14. (solutions)
- Exam #1 is
Wednesday, Feb. 19.
- From Monday, Feb. 10: Area
- In-class Items: your notes and...
- Reading:
- Textbook Section 14-1, omitting subsections on kites, regular polygons, circles, and sectors
- Homework:
- 14-1A: #6, 22, 23a and 14-1B: #8, 13
- 14-2A: #12 and p. 917: #1
- Quiz #4 is due Wednesday, 2/12/14. - Omit Problem #5.
(solutions)
- Exam #1 is
Wednesday, Feb. 19.
- From Wednesday, Feb. 3: No class
- ALL CLASSES CANCELLED due to bad weather
- Quiz #3 is now due
Monday, 2/10/14.
(solutions)
- From Monday, Feb. 3: Perimeter
- In-class Items: your notes and...
- Reading:
- Textbook Section 14-2 to end of Example 14-9 and subsection
"Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem"
- Textbook Section Theorem 11-1, Figure 11-23 and Now Try This 11-12
- Homework:
- 14-2A: #2acf, 6, 7, 9-11, 15, 26
- 14-2B: #2a, 9 and 11-2B: #16
- Find PERIMETERS of these figures: p. 843 #6a-d and p. 834 #6ab
- Answers p. 843: #6a (8.1), b (10.4), c (9.3), d (12.1)
- Answers p. 845: #6a (15.5), b (13.5)
- Quiz #3 is due Wednesday, 2/5/14.
(solutions)
- From Wednesday, Jan. 29: Perimeter
- In-class Items: your notes and...
- Activity #1:
Polyomino Perimeters (should be numbered Act. #2)
- Reading:
- Textbook Section 11-2 pp. 657-end
- Homework:
- Quiz #2 is due Monday, 2/3/14.
(solutions)
- From Monday, Jan. 27: Measurement
- In-class Items: only your notes
- Reading:
- Textbook Section 11-2 pp. 652-655
- Textbook Section 14-1 "Converting Units of Area" (pp. 830-831)
- Textbook Section 14-5 "Converting ...Measures of Volume" (pp. 891-894) and "Mass" (pp. 905-906)
- Dimension analysis lesson by Kenny Felder
- Homework:
- Quiz #1 is due Wednesday, 1/29/14.
(solutions)
- From Wednesday, Jan. 22: Measurement
- In-class Items: your notes and...
- Reading:
- Textbook Section 11-2 subsection "The Metric System" (pp. 653-656)
- Textbook Section 14-1 p. 831 (only)
- Homework:
- Nothing is due for next time.