**Note: this class started in January and is nearing the end of the curriculum. We are offering an accelerated version of this class from the beginning of the curriculum over the summer, which can be found here: https://outschool.com/classes/high-school-geometry-summer-review-and-prepare-dtfZjy3u

Looking for a Geometry class where your learner will be an active participant in their own learning? Well, look no further! This will be a highly interactive class, where learners participate throughout the entire class, in the way that they personally feel comfortable doing so. At Mind over Math, we believe that every learner should be given the opportunity to participate in ways that feel comfortable for them and promote learning and understanding, for their own individual learning style. Our classes are set up in such a way that does exactly that. 

We will be using the following learning tools during class:

-	Nearpod: an interactive learning tool that provides the teacher with real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons and activities
-	Blooket: an exciting new take on the modern classroom review game. It aims to match action with education to create the ultimate learning experience!

The class is taught with the following structure: 

The teacher explains the concepts and discusses them with learners, presents an example, then after each example the teacher presents, the learners get a turn to try their own example on Nearpod. Once the teacher sees that learners have completed the example on Nearpod, they come back together as a group to take up the problem. They continue to go back and forth in this way for the duration of class, so that learners are always given the opportunity to try every concept learned on their own. Learners can participate by asking and answering questions out loud, through the chat, or by simply participating individually on Nearpod – however they feel comfortable and learn best. Blooket games will also be incorporated throughout the classes to consolidate learning, while having fun!  

Learners in this class will need to have completed a full year of 8th grade math/Pre-Algebra as a prerequisite to this course. Algebra 1 is also recommended. 

Below are the units we will be covering in this class:

Unit 1	Basics Of Geometry
Unit 2	Reasoning And Proofs
Unit 3	Parallel And Perpendicular Lines
Unit 4	Transformations
Unit 5	Congruent Triangles
Unit 6	Relationships Within Triangles
Unit 7	Quadrilaterals And Other Polygons
Unit 8	Similarity
Unit 9	Right Triangles And Similarity
Unit 10	Circles
Unit 11	Circumference, Area And Volume


Here is a weekly breakdown of the topics we will be covering

Week of... 

08-Jan	Basics of Geometry	points, lines and planes, measuring and constructing segments, using midpoint and distance formulas
15-Jan	Basics of Geometry	perimeter and area in the coordinate plane, measuring and constructing angles, describing pairs of angles
22-Jan	Reasoning and Proofs	algebraic reasoning, proving statements about segments and angles, proving geometric relationships
29-Jan	Parallel And Perpendicular Lines	pairs of lines into angles, parallel lines and transversals
05-Feb	Parallel And Perpendicular Lines	proofs with parallel lines, proofs with perpendicular lines, equations of parallel lines and perpendicular lines
12-Feb	Transformations	translations, reflections, rotations
19-Feb	Transformations	congruence and transformations, dilations, similarity and transformations
26-Feb	Congruent Triangles	angles of triangles, congruent polygons, proving triangle congruence by SAS, equilateral and isosceles triangles
04-Mar	Congruent Triangles	proving triangle congruence by SSS, ASA, and AAS, using congruent triangles
11-Mar	Relationships Within Triangles	perpendicular and angle bisectors, bisectors of triangles, medians and altitudes of triangles
18-Mar	Relationships Within Triangles	the triangle midsegment theorem, indirect proof and inequalities in one triangle, inequalities in two triangles
25-Mar	Quadrilaterals And Other Polygons	angles of polygons, properties of parallelograms, proving parallelograms
01-Apr	Quadrilaterals And Other Polygons	properties of special parallelograms, properties of trapezoids and kites
08-Apr	Similarity	similar polygons, proving triangle similarity by AA, SSS, and SAS
15-Apr	Right Triangles And Similarity	proportionality theorems, Pythagorean theorem, special right triangles
22-Apr	Right Triangles And Similarity	similar right triangles, tangent ratio, sine and cosine ratio
29-Apr	Right Triangles And Similarity	solving right triangles, law of sines and law of cosines
06-May	Circles	lines and segments that intersect circles, finding arc measures, using chords
13-May	Circles	inscribed angles and polygons, angle relationships in circles, segment relationships in circles
20-May	Circumference, Area And Volume	circles in the coordinate plane, circumference and arc length, areas of circles and sectors
27-May	Circumference, Area And Volume	areas of polygons, 3D figures, volumes of prisms and cylinders
03-Jun	Circumference, Area And Volume	volumes of pyramids, surface areas and volumes of cones and spheres