Geometry (Traditional Approach)

Full-year course. WTMA Geometry takes a traditional approach to introductory geometry. In the class students will learn about topics from points, lines, and planes, through triangles, perimeter and area, constructions, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, three-dimensional geometry, curved surfaces, transformations, and analytical geometry, to an introduction to trigonometry. Students will focus on the two-column proof and applying the concepts to problem solving.

Prerequisite: Students should have completed WTMA Algebra I or a similar algebra course, and have the following skills–

• solving linear and quadratic equations
• adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials
• factoring polynomials
• simplifying and solving rational equations
• simplifying roots
• graphing linear equations and using slope 
• solving systems of equations