Advanced Geometry

Expand your ability to visualize and reason about geometric ideas.

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About This Course

Course Name/Code: Advanced Geometry, ASMA 335
Catalog Description: Examines concepts of Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometries. Students will use the computer program Geometer’s Sketchpad to discover the logic of Geometry. The Students will make predictions and Sketchpad to confirm or refute their predictions.
Credits/Hours: 3

Instructors and Texts

Instructors Who Teach This Course: Mrs. Marsha Jackson
Required Text(s)Students must purchase and possess the required text(s) by the first day of class. Order early:

  • Geometer’s Sketchpad, Keycurriculum
    • This is the program you will use for all your assignments except for forums and tests. You may order the student unlimited version, the 1 year rental version, or the instructors version. The instructors version allows you to save and make tools within the program
    • ISBN-10: 978-1-60440-095-3
  • Kimberling, Clark. Geometry in Action. Key College Publishing, 2003
    • ISBN-13: 978-1-93191-402-4

Course Workload Preview

The following preview of anticipated course workload is subject to instructor change.

  • Expand your ability to visualize and reason about geometric ideas.
  • Use inductive reasoning to make conjectures and use deductive reasoning.
  • Learn and understand Euclid¹s postulates and mathematical system.
  • Use Analytical Geometry as a tool to solve geometric problems, and develop a realization of the relationships between Algebra and Geometry.
  • Expand your geometric reasoning to other geometries.
  • Understand the basic concepts of transformational geometry.
  • Understand symmetries using Sketchpad.