Overview: This is the second semester of our eighth grade course.

Meets: Either once a week for 3 hours or twice a week for 1.5 hours each time.
Note: Classes are longer and/or meet more frequently during the summer.

Topics:

• Congruent and similar triangles
  • Tests for congruent triangles
  • Using congruent triangles
  • Tests for similar triangles
  • Using similar triangles
• Mensuration
  • Sectors
  • Volume of cones and pyramids
  • Surface area of cones and pyramids
  • Surface area and volume of spheres
  • Areas of similar figures
  • Volumes of similar figures
• Pythagorean Theorem and Trigonometry
  • Pythagora’s theorem
  • Indirect measurement
  • Trigonometrical ratios
  • Solutions of right-sided triangles
  • Applications of trigonometrical ratios to problems
• Motion Geometry
  • Reflection
  • Rotation
  • Translation
  • Enlargement
  • Combination of transformations
• Statistics I
  • Pie chart
  • Bar chart
  • Pictogram
  • Line graph
  • Comparison of presentations of data
  • Reading and drawing bar graphs
  • Reading and drawing pie charts
  • Reading and drawing line graphs and pictograms
• Statistics II
  • Frequently distribution
  • Histogram
  • Mean, median, and mode
  • Types of average
• More Algebraic Manipulations
  • Addition and subtraction of polynomials
  • Multiplication of polynomials
  • Division of polynomials
  • Algebraic fractions and fractional equations
  • Algebraic manipulation – Identities
  • Manipulation of expressions