Geometry
Unit 1: Congruence, Proof and Constructions
Standard 1: Experiment with transformations in the plane.
G.CO.1 Know precise definitions of angle, circle, perpendicular line, parallel line, and line
segment, based on the undefined notions of point, line, distance along a line, and distance around
a circular arc.
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Students should be able to understand and apply the above definitions.
Define undefined terms: point and line. Define distance along a line, distance around a
circular arc, angle, circle, perpendicular line, parallel line, and line segment.
Students will be able to identify, label with appropriate symbols and apply definitions of
point, line, distance along a line, distance around a circular arc, angle, circle,
perpendicular line, parallel line, and line segment.
G.CO.2 Represent transformations in the plane using, e.g., transparencies and geometry
software; describe transformations as functions that take points in the plane as inputs and give
other points as outputs. Compare transformations that preserve distance and angle to those that
do not (e.g., translation versus horizontal stretch).
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Define and represent transformation with and without technology. Compare
transformations that preserve distance and angle size to those that do not.
Students need to know the difference between a translation and horizontal stretch.
Students will be able to perform transformations and identify congruent parts of
congruent shapes, and know transformation rules.
G.CO.3 Given a rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, or regular polygon, describe the rotations
and reflections that carry it onto itself.
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Describe and identify the transformations where the image is the same as the original.
Given a polygon what types of symmetry does the figure have ex: line, point, rotational?
Describe and identify the transformations where the image is the same as the original.
Given a polygon what types of symmetry does the figure have ex: line, point, rotational?
G.CO.4 Develop definitions of rotations, reflections, and translations in terms of angles, circles,
perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and line segments.
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Students need to be able to perform transformations without coordinates and understand
how they are made.
Students will be able to determine which properties are preserved under the
transformations of rotations, reflections, and translations. Students will understand
transformations are isometries that preserve orientation, distance, parallelism, angle
measure and co-linearity.
G.CO.5 Given a geometric figure and a rotation, reflection, or translation, draw the transformed
figure using, e.g., graph paper, tracing paper, or geometry software. Specify a sequence of
transformations that will carry a given figure onto another.
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Identify the composition of transformations needed to move a figure onto its image.
Students will be able to connect more than one transformation to explain how the image
was produced.
Standard 2: Understand congruence in terms of rigid motions.
G.CO.6 Use geometric descriptions of rigid motions to transform figures and to predict the effect
of a given rigid motion on a given figure; given two figures, use the definition of congruence in
terms of rigid motions to decide if they are congruent.
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Show distance and angle measurements are preserved with translations, reflections and
rotations
G.CO.7 Use the definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions to show that two triangles are
congruent if and only if corresponding pairs of sides and corresponding pairs of angles are
congruent.
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Formal definition of congruence for triangles.
Identify corresponding sides and angles
Show corresponding sides and angles are congruent
G.CO.8 Explain how the criteria for triangle congruence (ASA, SAS, and SSS) follow from the
definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions.
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Explain how two triangles can be congruent given the congruence of three pairs of sides
and angles (ASA, SAS, SSS).
Students should be able to use a compass and straightedge and/or Geometer’s Sketchpad
to construct congruent segments and angles of triangles to illustrate triangle congruence.
Standard 3: Prove Geometric Theorems
G.CO.9 Prove theorems about lines and angles. Theorems include: vertical angles are congruent;
when a transversal crosses parallel lines, alternate interior angles are congruent and
corresponding angles are congruent; points on a perpendicular bisector of a line segment are
exactly those equidistant from the segment’s endpoints.
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Understand the basic process for constructing a formal and informal proof with respect to
lines and angles.
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Definitions of vertical angles, parallel lines, transversal, perpendicular bisector,
corresponding angles, alternate interior angles, alternate exterior angles, same side
interior angles and equidistance.
G.CO.10 Prove theorems about triangles. Theorems include: measures of interior angles of a
triangle sum to 180°; base angles of isosceles triangles are congruent; the segment joining
midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half the length; the medians of
a triangle meet at a point.
 Use formal and informal proofs to justify properties of triangles involving their sides,
angles, midsegments, and medians.
 Definitions of median, isosceles triangle, midpoint, parallel, centroid, circumcenter,
incenter and exterior angles.
G.CO.11 Prove theorems about parallelograms. Theorems include: opposite sides are congruent,
opposite angles are congruent, the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other, and
conversely, rectangles are parallelograms with congruent diagonals.
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Definition and attributes of parallelogram, diagonal, bisect, rectangle, rhombus, square.
Determine the hierarchy of quadrilaterals, specifically within parallelograms.
Use formal or informal proofs to prove properties of parallelograms, including what
information is sufficient to prove a quadrilateral is a parallelogram, square, rectangle or
rhombus.
Standard 4: Make geometric constructions.
G.CO.12 Make formal geometric constructions with a variety of tools and methods (compass and
straightedge, string, reflective devices, paper folding, dynamic geometric software, etc.).
Copying a segment; copying an angle; bisecting a segment; bisecting an angle; constructing
perpendicular lines, including the perpendicular bisector of a line segment; and constructing a
line parallel to a given line through a point not on the line.
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Students will use a compass and straightedge to make formal constructions.
How to use a compass and straightedge, and/or geometry software, string, reflective
devices, and paper.
G.CO.13 Construct an equilateral triangle, a square, and a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle.
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Use mathematical tools to construct an equilateral triangle, square, or regular hexagon
inside a circle so that all the vertices of the polygon lie on the circle.
Unit 2: Similarity, Right Triangles and Trigonometry
Standard 5: Understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations.
G.SRT.1 Verify experimentally the properties of dilations given by a center and a scale factor.
a. A dilation takes a line not passing through the center of the dilation to a parallel line,
and leaves a line passing through the center unchanged.
b. The dilation of a line segment is longer or shorter in the ratio given by the scale
factor.
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Orientation and parallelism is preserved in dilated figures; corresponding sides in figures
and their images are proportional.
Use construction techniques to dilate a given figure with a given scaling factor or in the
coordinate plane using rules of dilation.
Demonstrate the proportionality and parallel lines using coordinate geometry or
Euclidean proof (similarity).
G.SRT.2 Given two figures, use the definition of similarity in terms of similarity transformations
to decide if they are similar; explain using similarity transformations the meaning of similarity
for triangles as the equality of all corresponding pairs of angles and the proportionality of all
corresponding pairs of sides.
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Identify similar polygons based on definition of similarity.
Identify pairs of corresponding angles that are congruent and corresponding sides that are
proportional.
Establish and solve proportions based upon similar polygons.
G.SRT.3 Use the properties of similarity transformations to establish the AA criterion for two
triangles to be similar.
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Prove triangles similar using the AA similarity theorem.
Standard 6: Prove theorems using Similarity
G.SRT.4 Prove theorems about triangles. Theorems include: a line parallel to one side of a
triangle divides the other two proportionally, and conversely; the Pythagorean Theorem proved
using triangle similarity.
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Use previous theorems and postulates to justify assertions about triangles.
Prove the Pythagorean theorem using the geometric means with similar triangles.
G.SRT.5 Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove
relationships in geometric figures.
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Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles are Congruent, Corresponding Parts of
Similar Triangles are in Proportion.
Use congruence or similarity to prove assertions about geometric figures.
Standard 7: Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles
G.SRT.6 Understand that by similarity, side ratios in right triangles are properties of the angles
in the triangle, leading to definitions of trigonometric ratios for acute angles.
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Definition of sine, cosine and tangent as they relate to right triangles based on similar
triangles.
Know parts of right triangle (hypotenuse)
Establish adjacent and opposite sides based on vertex of the acute angle
Given side lengths of a triangle, find the sine/cosine/tangent ratio for a given angle
G.SRT.7 Explain and use the relationship between the sine and cosine of complementary angles.
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Given a right triangle with two acute angles A and B, know and use sine A = cosine B.
Calculate sine and cosine ratios in a right triangle
Use a single right triangle, develop ratios to verify the theorem
G.SRT.8 Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangles in
applied problems.
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Find missing side lengths and angle measures in right triangles.
Pythagorean theorem and sine/cosine/tangent ratios
Understand when to apply needed ratios or Pythagorean theorem
Solve special right triangles(45o/45o/90o,30o/60o/90o) for missing sides.
Standard 8: Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations
G.MG.1 Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g.,
modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).
 Relating geometric models to real-world figures
G.MG.2 Apply concepts of density based on area and volume in modeling situations (e.g.,
persons per square mile, BTUs per cubic foot).
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Know density is ratio of objects per unit of measure and apply it to real world application
problems
G.MG.3 Apply geometric methods to solve design problems (e.g., designing an object or
structure to satisfy physical constraints or minimize cost; working with typographic grid systems
based on ratios).
Unit 3: Extending to Three Dimensions
Standard 9: Explain volume formulas and use them to solve problems.
G.GMD.1 Give an informal argument for the formulas for the circumference of a circle, area of a
circle, volume of a cylinder, pyramid, and cone. Use dissection arguments, Cavalieri’s principle,
and informal limit arguments.
 Derive the formulas for circumference of a circle, area of a circle, volume of a cylinder,
pyramid, and cone using various techniques. Techniques include limit arguments
(concentric rings of circles to show area formula, pie-shaped wedges into a rectangle to
show area of a circle), Cavalieri’s principle (two figures have bases with equal areas and
the same height, then their volumes are equal), and dissection arguments (taking apart a
figure and putting it back together in a more recognizable shape, ie. into a rectangle).
G.GMD.3 Use volume formulas for cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres to solve problems.
 Apply the volume formulas of common polyhedral to solve problems
Standard 10: Visualize the relation between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects
G.GMD.4 Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects,
and identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional objects.
 Given a three-dimensional object, determine what two-dimensional shape is formed when
you take a cross-section of the object
 When given a two-dimensional shape, what is the resulting three-dimensional shape
when the original shape is rotated
Standard 11: Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations
G.MG.1 Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g.,
modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).
 Relating geometric models to real-world figures
Unit 4: Connecting Algebra and Geometry through Coordinates
Standard 12: Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically
G.GPE.4 Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically. For example, prove
or disprove that a figure defined by four given points in the coordinate plane is a rectangle;
prove or disprove that the point (1, √3) lies on the circle centered at the origin and containing
the point (0, 2).
 Use the distance, slope and midpoint formulas to prove or disprove properties of figures
including quadrilaterals, circles, and right triangles.
G.GPE.5 Prove the slope criteria for parallel and perpendicular lines and uses them to solve
geometric problems (e.g., find the equation of a line parallel or perpendicular to a given line that
passes through a given point).
 Students must show that parallel lines have equal slopes and that perpendicular lines have
negative reciprocal slopes. Use these slopes to write the equation of a line parallel or
perpendicular to a given line through a given point.
 Be able to identify pairs of parallel or perpendicular lines based on graphs of lines or their
equations
G.GPE.6 Find the point on a directed line segment between two given points that partitions the
segment in a given ratio.
 Using similar triangles and fundamental constructions of copying a segment and copying
an angle to divide a given segment into a given ratio.
G.GPE.7 Use coordinates to compute perimeters of polygons and areas of triangles and
rectangles, e.g., using the distance formula.
 Calculate linear measures using distance formula, substitute into area and perimeter
formulas
 Know and apply the concept of slope and perpendicular segments to create altitudes
Unit 5: Circles with and without Coordinates
Standard 13: Understand and apply theorems about circles
G.C.1 Prove that all circles are similar.
 Show two circles are proportional in reference to circumference, radius, and diameter.
 Show that the ratio of circumference to the diameter is pi for all circles.
G.C.2 Identify and describe relationships among inscribed angles, radii, and chords. Include the
relationship between central, inscribed, and circumscribed angles; inscribed angles on a
diameter are right angles; the radius of a circle is perpendicular to the tangent where the radius
intersects the circle.
 Investigate, justify, and apply theorems about the arcs determined by the rays of angles
formed by two lines intersecting a circle when the vertex is: inside the circle (two
chords); on the circle (tangent and chord); outside the circle (two tangents, two secants,
or tangent and secant)
 Know vocabulary and notation for circles, arcs and angles
G.C.3 Construct the inscribed and circumscribed circles of a triangle, and prove properties of
angles for a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle.
 Locate circumcenter and incenter of a triangle using a compass/ruler and/or geometric
software
 Apply theorems about inscribed angles to inscribed quadrilaterals
Standard 14: Find arc lengths and areas of sectors of circles
G.C.5 Derive using similarity the fact that the length of the arc intercepted by an angle is
proportional to the radius, and define the radian measure of the angle as the constant of
proportionality; derive the formula for the area of a sector.
 Students will understand vocabulary to convert between radians and degrees. They will
also find the area of a sector and arc length.
 Define radian measure (Radian = 180 degrees/ pi)
 Radius divided by arc length in one circle is proportional to radius divided by arc length
in a similar circle.
Standard 15: Translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section
G.GPE.1 Derive the equation of a circle of given center and radius using the Pythagorean
Theorem; complete the square to find the center and radius of a circle given by an equation.
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Given the center of a circle and a point on a circle, students will use the distance formula
(which is an application of the Pythagorean theorem) to find the radius of the circle and
derive the standard form for the equation of a circle.
Given the general form of a circle, complete the square to find the standard form of the
circle. State the center and radius based on the standard form.
Standard 16: Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically.
G.GPE.4 Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically. For example, prove
or disprove that a figure defined by four given points in the coordinate plane is a rectangle;
prove or disprove that the point (1, √3) lies on the circle centered at the origin and containing
the point (0, 2).
 Use the distance, slope and midpoint formulas to prove or disprove properties of figures
including quadrilaterals, circles, and right triangles.
Standard 17: Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations
G.MG.1 Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g.,
modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).
 Relating geometric models to real-world figures