Geometry for the Classroom
Home > Mathematics and Science Textbooks > Mathematics > Geometry > Geometry for the Classroom
Geometry for the Classroom

Geometry for the Classroom


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



Available


X
About the Book

Intended for use in college courses for prospective or in-service secondary school teachers of geometry. Designed to give teachers broad preparation in the content of elementary geometry as well as closely related topics of a slightly more advanced nature. The presentation and the modular format are designed to incorporate a flexible methodology for the teaching of geometry, one that can be adapted to different classroom settings. The basic strategy is to develop the few fundamental concepts of elementary geometry, first in intuitive form, and then more rigorously. The rest of the material is then built up out of these concepts through a combination of exposition and "guided discovery" in the problem sections. A separate volume including the solutions to the exercises is also available.

Table of Contents:
Intuition.- I1: Geometry is about shapes.- I2:… and more shapes.- I3: Polygons in the plane.- I4: Angles in the plane.- I5: Walking north, east, south, and west in the plane.- I6: Areas of rectangles.- I7: What is the area of the shaded triangle?.- I8: Adding the angles of a triangle.- I9: Pythagorean theorem.- I10: Side Side Side (SSS).- I11: Parallel lines.- I12: Rectangles between parallels and the Z-principle.- I13: Areas: The principle of parallel slices.- I14: If two lines in the plane do not intersect, they are parallel.- I15: The first magnification principle: preliminary form.- I16: The first magnification principle: final form.- I17: Area inside a circle of radius one.- I18: When are triangles congruent?.- I19: Magnifications preserve parallelism and angles.- I20: The principle of similarity.- I21: Proportionality of segments cut by parallels.- I22: Finding the center of a triangle.- I23: Concurrence theorem for altitudes of a triangle.- I24: Inscribing angles in circles.- I25: Fun facts about circles, and limiting cases.- I26: Degrees and radians.- I27: Trigonometry.- I28: Tangent a =(rise)/(run).- I29: Everything you always wanted to know about trigonometry but were afraid to ask.- I30: The law of sines and the law of cosines.- I31: Figuring areas.- I32: The second magnification principle.- I33: Volume of a pyramid.- I34: Of cones and collars.- I35: Sphereworld.- I36: Segments and angles in sphereworld.- I37: Of boxes, cylinders, and spheres.- I38: If it takes one can of paint to paint a square one widget on a side, how many cans does it take to paint a sphere with radius r widgets?.- I39: Excess angle formula for spherical triangles.- I40: Hyperbolic-land.- Construction.- C1: Copying triangles.- C2: Copying angles.- C3: Constructing perpendiculars.- C4:Constructing parallels.- C5: Constructing numbers as lengths.- C6 Given a number, construct its square root.- C7: Constructing parallelograms.- C8: Constructing a regular 3-gon and 4-gon.- C9: Constructing a regular 5-gon.- C10: Constructing a regular 6-gon.- C11: Constructing a regular 7-gon (almost).- C12: Constructing a regular tetrahedron.- C13: Constructing a cube and an octohedron.- C14: Constructing a dodecahedron and an icosahedron.- C15: Constructing the baricenter of a triangle.- C16: Constructing the altitudes of a triangle.- C17: Constructing a circle through three points.- C18: Bisecting a given angle.- C19: Putting circles inside angles.- C20: Inscribing circles in polygons.- C21: Circumscribing circles about polygons.- C22: Drawing triangles on the sphere.- C23: Constructing hyperbolic lines.- Proof.- P1: Distance on the line, motions of the line.- P2: Distance in the plane.- P3: Motions of the plane.- P4: A list of motions of the line.- P5: A complete list of motions of the line.- P6: Motions of the plane: Translations.- P7: Motions of the plane: Rotations.- P8: Motions of the plane: Vertical flip.- P9: Motions of the plane fixing (0,0) and (a,0).- P10: A complete list of motions of the plane.- P11: Distance in space.- P12: Motions of space.- P13: The triangle inequality.- P14: Co-ordinate geometry is about shapes and more shapes.- P15: The shortest path between two points….- P16: The unique line through two given points.- P17: Proving SSS.- Computer Programs.- CP1: Information you’ll need about the CP-pages.- CP2: Given two points, construct the segment, ray, and line that pass through them.- CP3: Given a line and a point, construct the perpendicular to the line through the point, or the parallel to the line through the point.- CP4: Given asegment, construct its perpendicular bisector.- CP5: Given an angle, construct the bisector.- CP6: Given three vertices, construct the triangle and its medians.- CP7: Given three vertices, construct the triangle and its angle bisectors.- CP8: Given three vertices, construct the triangle and its altitudes.- CP9: Given a figure in the plane and a positive number R, magnify the figure by a factor of R.- CP10: Given a figure in the plane and two positive numbers R and S, magnify the figure by a factor of R in the horizontal direction and by a factor of S in the vertical direction.- CP11: Given the center and radius of a circle, and two positive numbers R and S, magnify the circle by a factor of R in the horizontal direction and by a factor of S in the vertical direction.- CP12: TRANSLATIONS: Given a figure in the plane and two numbers a and b, show the motion m(x,y) = (x + a, y + b).- CP13: ROTATIONS: Given a figure in the plane and two numbers c and s, so that c2 + s2 = 1, show the motion m(x,y) = (cx - sy, sx + cy).- CP14: FLIPS: Given a figure in the plane, show the motion m(x,y) = (x, -y).- CP15: Composing a set of two motions.- CP16: Composing a series of motions.- CP17: Given a point and a positive number R, construct the circle of radius R about the point.- CP18: Given three points in the plane, construct the unique circle that passes through all three points.- CP19: Given the center of a circle and a point on the circle, construct the tangent to the circle through the point.- CP20: Given a circle and a point outside the circle, construct the two lines tangent to the circle that pass through the point.- CP21: Given a point X inside or outside the circle of radius one and center O, construct the reciprocal point X’.- CP22: Given two points inside the circle ofradius one about (0,0), construct the hyperbolic line containing the two points.


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780387975641
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 356
  • Returnable: Y
  • ISBN-10: 0387975640
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 1991
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 210 mm


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Geometry for the Classroom
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. -
Geometry for the Classroom
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Geometry for the Classroom

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!