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Khan Academy: Geometry

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Excellent tools and assessments with fair Common Core coverage

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Clear diagrams help in video clips like "Rotating polygons 180 degrees about their center."
It's great that the skill assessments let kids manipulate figures.
The "Koch snowflake fractal" video explains a challenging geometry problem.
Teachers can recommend specific tasks that will help their students toward Mission mastery.

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Khan's Geometry content offers some very helpful formative skill assessments. Because manipulating figures is so important in geometry, the ability to do this on-screen is incredibly valuable. In the tutorial “Defining congruence through rigid transformations,” kids can actually perform transformations like translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations. For example, “Rotating polygons 180 degrees about their center” starts with the figures already on the screen. Sal demonstrates with two examples, then asks kids to pause the video and think about how this applies to other shapes. This video is concise and asks kids to be actively involved while watching. On the whole, the videos in here seem to have better production and organization than some of Khan's others. 

The video “Koch snowflake fractal" may be a nice challenge for advanced students, though others may not have the patience for such a lengthy discussion. Nevertheless, the Geometry Mission can be helpful for lots of kids as a way to zero in on areas of struggle. It's important to note that the Geometry content still seems to be in development; quite a few Common Core standards aren't covered. Nevertheless, kids can learn a lot here –- use the Recommend Task feature on the dashboard to direct your students toward the most helpful activities for their needs.

Full Disclosure: Khan Academy and Common Sense Education share funders; however, those relationships do not impact Common Sense Education's editorial independence and this learning rating.

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Key Standards Supported

Circles

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.C.3

    Construct the inscribed and circumscribed circles of a triangle, and prove properties of angles for a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle.

Congruence

  • HSG.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).

  • HSG.CO.3

    Given a rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, or regular polygon, describe the rotations and reflections that carry it onto itself.

  • HSG.CO.4

    Develop definitions of rotations, reflections, and translations in terms of angles, circles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and line segments.

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.CO.13

    Construct an equilateral triangle, a square, and a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle.

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.CO.8

    Explain how the criteria for triangle congruence (ASA, SAS, and SSS) follow from the definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions.

Expressing Geometric Properties With Equations

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.GPE.2

    Derive the equation of a parabola given a focus and directrix.

  • HSG.GPE.3

    (+) Derive the equations of ellipses and hyperbolas given the foci, using the fact that the sum or difference of distances from the foci is constant.

  • HSG.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).

  • HSG.GPE.5

    Prove the slope criteria for parallel and perpendicular lines and use 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).

  • HSG.GPE.6

    Find the point on a directed line segment between two given points that partitions the segment in a given ratio.

  • HSG.GPE.7

    Use coordinates to compute perimeters of polygons and areas of triangles and rectangles, e.g., using the distance formula.

Geometric Measurement And Dimension

  • HSG.GMD.3

    Use volume formulas for cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres to solve problems.

Modeling With Geometry

  • HSG.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).

  • HSG.MG.2

    Apply concepts of density based on area and volume in modeling situations (e.g., persons per square mile, BTUs per cubic foot).

  • HSG.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).

Similarity, Right Triangles, And Trigonometry

  • HSG.SRT.10

    (+) Prove the Laws of Sines and Cosines and use them to solve problems.

  • HSG.SRT.11

    (+) Understand and apply the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines to find unknown measurements in right and non-right triangles (e.g., surveying problems, resultant forces).

  • HSG.SRT.9

    (+) Derive the formula A = 1/2 ab sin(C) for the area of a triangle by drawing an auxiliary line from a vertex perpendicular to the opposite side.

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.SRT.7

    Explain and use the relationship between the sine and cosine of complementary angles.

  • HSG.SRT.8

    Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangles in applied problems.

  • HSG.SRT.5

    Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove relationships in geometric figures.

  • HSG.SRT.1

    Verify experimentally the properties of dilations given by a center and a scale factor:

  • HSG.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.

  • HSG.SRT.3

    Use the properties of similarity transformations to establish the AA criterion for two triangles to be similar.

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