Geometry Essentials (Part 3)

"In real life, geometry has a lot of practical uses, from the most basic to the most advanced phenomena in life. Even the very basic concept of area can be a huge factor in how you do your daily business. For example, space is a huge issue when planning various construction projects. For instance, the size or area of a specific appliance or tool can greatly affect how it will fit in to your home or workplace, and can affect how the other parts of your home would fit around it. This is why it is essential to take account of areas, both of your space, and the item that you are about to integrate in there. In addition, geometry plays a role in basic engineering projects. For example, using the concept of perimeter, you can compute the amount of material (ex.: paint, fencing material, etc) that you need to use for your project. Also, designing professions such as interior design and architecture uses 3 dimensional figures. A thorough knowledge of geometry is going to help them a lot in determining the proper style (and more importantly, optimize its function) of a specific house, building, or vehicle."

"Those are some of the more basic uses of geometry, but it doesn't end there. As some more professions use geometry in order to do their job properly. For example, computer imaging, something that is used nowadays for creating animations, video games, designing, and stuff like that, are created using geometric concepts. Also, geometry is used in mapping. Mapping is an essential element in professions such as surveying, navigation, and astronomy. From sketching to calculating distances, they use geometry to accomplish their job. In addition, professions such as medicine benefit from geometric imaging. Technologies such as CT scans and MRIs are used both for diagnosis and surgical aids. Such methods enable doctors to do their job better, safer, and simpler. "

The way I teach this skill is very easy to learn and your child will be prepared for success in Geometry.
I will show students how to do an exercise on the white board. They will learn  by actually doing example exercises during class. I will repeat with another exercise and will explain as many times as needed until the students are ready to do the exercises by themselves. Once started, I will check their answers for accuracy and follow up with any necessary explanations. I encourage all participants to try as many exercises as possible. I follow up the class with an upload of homework with the solutions.

Prerequisite:  Students need to be fluent in :The four operations with positive and negative numbers.
                                                                       Be able to plot  and identify points on the X and Y axis.
                                                                       The use  of the distributive property.
                                                                       Solve basic algebraic equations.

NOTE : Students must have a reasonable amount of academic maturity to enroll.

NOTE: Instructor reserves the right to change and modify content.

The course breakdown is as follows:

Week 1: Identifying marks (tic) on geometric figures. Focuses on more detail and formal geometric language.
Week 2: Parallel lines. Identifying angle pairs. Solving for x using algebra.
Week 3: Finding angle measures in parallel lines by solving for x first.
Week 4: The midpoint formula. Endpoint calculation.
Week 5: Using the distance formula , when given points and or graphs.
Week 6: Classifying Triangles by angles and sides.
Week 7: Finding numeric angle measure and using algebra to solve for x.
Week 8: The exterior angle theorem. Numeric and algebraic equations.