Ms. Chan's Geometry Honors Chat Room

Wednesday, February 29, 2012



Construction Test tomorrow!!!

Know how to:



  1. duplicate a segment

  2. duplicate an angle

  3. construct a perpendicular thru a point not on a line

  4. construct a perpendicular thru a point on the line

  5. construct a perpendicular bisector

  6. bisect an angle

  7. construct a triangle given 3 segments

  8. cconstruct the incenter of a triangle

  9. construct a square with perimeter x

  10. constuct a triangle given 2 segments and the included angle

  11. construct parallel lines using the rhombus method

  12. construct a specific angle with your knowledge of how to bisect an angle

  13. construct a specific angle with your knowledge of how to bisect an angle

  14. construct parallel lines using the equidistant method

  15. inscribe a circle within an obtuse triangle

  16. construct the circumcenter of a triangle

  17. construct the orthocenter of a triangle

  18. construct the centroid of a triangle

  19. circumscribe a circle about a triangle

  20. know the 3rd bullet points for 3 out of your four centers
Ch. 4 Test on Friday!!!!


  • prepare for this test by re doing some of the problems that i assigned in every section of chapter 4

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Monday, February 27, 2012




5.2 Medians and Altitudes of Triangles





  • KNOW the blue box on pg. 337!!!!

  • (5-25) odd


  • (35)


  • (41)

Construction Book



  • constructions must be perfect

  • all or nothing. if you're even the tiniest bit off, you will not receive credit for it

  • each page is a half sheet of paper cut horizontally

  • must be in the following order or it's an automatic zero for not following directions: pages 1, 2, and 3 will be the circumcenter with circumscribed circles (acute, obtuse, right triangle), pages 4, 5, and 6 will be the incenter with inscribed circles (acute, obtuse, right triangle), pages 7, 8, and 9 will be the centroid (acute, obtuse, right triangle), pages 10, 11, and 12 will be the orthocenter (acute, obtuse, right triangle)

  • draw the triangles using black pen

  • use colored pencils to draw your connections

Friday, February 24, 2012

Constructing the Orthocenters and Centroids of Triangles

I know that I didn't get to do this in class today but I am going to assign it anyway because there are directions on og 332 on how to construct an altitude of a triangle as well as a median of a triangle. If you have trouble following the directions, go to Youtube and do a search on how to construct the median of a triangle and how to construct the altitude of a triangle. There are numerous videos out there. I know. I've done the search myself.

orthocenter:


  • point of concurrency

  • 3 altitudes of a triangle

circumcenter



  • point of concurrency

  • 3 medians of a triangle

Follow the instructions on pg 332 to complete the following:

Construct:



  1. the orthocenter of an acute scalene triangle


  2. the orthocenter of an obtuse triangle


  3. the orthocenter of a right triangle


  4. the centroid of acute scalene triangle


  5. the centroid of of an obtuse triangle


  6. the centroid of a right triangle


  7. circumscribe a circle about an acute triangle


  8. circumscribe a circle about an obtuse triangle


  9. inscribe a circle in an acute triangle (remember, you MUST construct a perpendicular from the incenter to any side (preferably the longest side) of a triangle first BEFORE you can inscribe a circle!!!!)


  10. inscribe a circle in an obtuse triangle

Constructing the Circumcenters and Incenters of different types of triangles

Construct the:




  1. circumcenter of an acute triangle; then circumscribe a circle about the triangle


  2. circumcenter of an obtuse triangle; then circumscribe a circle about the triangle


  3. circumcenter of a right triangle; then circumscribe a circle about the triangle


  4. incenter of an acute triangle; then inscribe a circle in the triangle (don't forget to construct a perpendicular to the longest side of the triangle first!)


  5. incenter of an obtuse triangle; inscribe a circle


  6. incenter of a right triangle; inscribe a circle



if you are even the tiniest bit off, do it over again!!!!!! PERFECTION is what you are striving for in a construction!!!!




please use colored pencils and/or highlighters to help you identify the different perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors in your constructions. no color = no bueno =(

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 2012



5.1 Bisectors of Triangles


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  • (45)



5.2 Medians and Altitudes of Triangles



  • (5-25) odd

  • (35)

  • (41)

Constructions

  • MUST have your compass and straightedges with you tomorrow!
  • we start constructions
  • PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure you have your compass with you from now on!

4th period only!

  • log onto virtual counselor
  • complete your customer survey!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012



4.6 Isosceles and Equilateral Triangles



  • (9-23) odd
Ch. 4 Study Guide and Review
  • pgs 308-311
  • (1-28) all

Friday, February 17, 2012

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012



4.2 Angles of Triangles





  • read pgs 245-247

  • (13-43) odd



4.3 Congruent Triangles





  • read pgs 253-256

  • (9-29) odd

Monday, February 13, 2012


4.1 Classifying Triangles




  • read pgs. 235-237

  • make sure you place close attention to the examples

  • (21-45) odd


1.7



  • (3, 4, 18-24) all

  • (27-29) all

  • (31)

Friday, February 10, 2012



3.5





  • (1-23) odd

Review your homework from Chapter and Chapter 2 for the Ch 1/2 Test that I will be giving on Monday!

Thursday, February 9, 2012




3.3



  • (1-11) odd



3.4



  • (13-41 odd)

  • Write equations in Standard Form as well!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012




3.1 Parallel Lines and Transversals







  • read pgs 171-173



  • make 10 new vocabulary notes cards



  • know those definitions!



  • attempt (13-35) odd


3.2 Angles and Parallel Lines







  • (11-23) odd



  • (24-30) all



  • (38-40) all



  • (47-50) all

Tuesday, February 7, 2012



2.4 Deductive Reasoning





  • (11-39) odd


Mid-Chapter Quiz





  • pg 133


  • (1-20) all


  • I will be collecting this as your pre test for Benchmarks MA.912.D.6.2 and MA.912.D.6.3 so make sure the problems are copied and done in boxes!

Monday, February 6, 2012



Virtual Counselor Printout





  • log onto your virtual counselor


  • select test scores


  • select benchmark geometry and print


  • highlight the areas you are weak in (they are in red)


  • then go in your geometry book and research what section(s) you can find extra help or problems to do to strengthen these weaknesses. use the table of contents or the index!


2.2 Logic





  • (11-39) odd


2.3 Conditional Statements





  • read pgs 105-108

  • make flash cards for vocabulary words

  • (1-17) odd

Friday, February 3, 2012


1.6PDF





  • (1-4) all
Extra Spicy nth Term Problems










  • (1-9)

  • (1-2)

  • (1-12) all







Review nth term of a series of numbers PDF if you didn't get it last night!








EOC/FCAT Camp













  • everyone should be attending tomorrow's EOC Geometry Camp!







Have a PG-13 weekend!

Thursday, February 2, 2012



Finding the Sum of a Series PDF






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  • if you're having a hard time figuring out the spicy problems (7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28) AND you know zach, christopher, or matthew in my 4th period, they already know the trick because they stayed after class and figured it out with me.....