Discovering
Geometry An Investigative Approach
Practice Your Skills
with AnswersTeacher’s Materials Project Editor: Elizabeth DeCarli
Project Administrator: Brady Golden
Coordinating Writer: Jennifer North Morris
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Discovering
Geometry An Investigative Approach
Practice Your Skills
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 13 12 11 10 09 08 ISBN 978-1-55953-894-7Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Chapter 1
Lesson 1.1: Building Blocks of Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Lesson 1.2: Poolroom Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Lesson 1.3: What’s a Widget? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lesson 1.4: Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Lesson 1.5: Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lesson 1.6: Special Quadrilaterals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Lesson 1.7: Circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Lesson 1.8: Space Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Lesson 1.9: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 2
Lesson 2.1: Inductive Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Lesson 2.2: Finding the nth Term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Lesson 2.3: Mathematical Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Lesson 2.4: Deductive Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Lesson 2.5: Angle Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Lesson 2.6: Special Angles on Parallel Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 3
Lesson 3.1: Duplicating Segments and Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lesson 3.2: Constructing Perpendicular Bisectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Lesson 3.3: Constructing Perpendiculars to a Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Lesson 3.4: Constructing Angle Bisectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Lesson 3.5: Constructing Parallel Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Lesson 3.6: Construction Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Lesson 3.7: Constructing Points of Concurrency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Lesson 3.8: The Centroid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 4
Lesson 4.1: Triangle Sum Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Lesson 4.2: Properties of Isosceles Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Lesson 4.3: Triangle Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Lesson 4.4: Are There Congruence Shortcuts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Lesson 4.5: Are There Other Congruence Shortcuts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Lesson 4.6: Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lesson 4.7: Flowchart Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Lesson 4.8: Proving Special Triangle Conjectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Chapter 5
Lesson 5.1: Polygon Sum Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Lesson 5.2: Exterior Angles of a Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Lesson 5.3: Kite and Trapezoid Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Lesson 5.4: Properties of Midsegments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Lesson 5.5: Properties of Parallelograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Lesson 5.6: Properties of Special Parallelograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Lesson 5.7: Proving Quadrilateral Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 6
Lesson 6.1: Tangent Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Lesson 6.2: Chord Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Lesson 6.3: Arcs and Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Lesson 6.4: Proving Circle Conjectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Lesson 6.5: The Circumference/Diameter Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Lesson 6.6: Around the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Lesson 6.7: Arc Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Exploration: Intersecting Secants, Tangents, and Chords . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 7
Lesson 7.1: Transformations and Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Lesson 7.2: Properties of Isometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Lesson 7.3: Compositions of Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Lesson 7.4: Tessellations with Regular Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Lessons 7.5–7.8: Tessellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 8
Lesson 8.1: Areas of Rectangles and Parallelograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Lesson 8.2: Areas of Triangles, Trapezoids, and Kites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Lesson 8.3: Area Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Lesson 8.4: Areas of Regular Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Lesson 8.5: Areas of Circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Lesson 8.6: Any Way You Slice It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Lesson 8.7: Surface Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 9
Lesson 9.1: The Theorem of Pythagoras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lesson 9.2: The Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Lesson 9.3: Two Special Right Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Lesson 9.4: Story Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Lesson 9.5: Distance in Coordinate Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Lesson 9.6: Circles and the Pythagorean Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64v
Chapter 10
Lesson 10.1: The Geometry of Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Lesson 10.2: Volume of Prisms and Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Lesson 10.3: Volume of Pyramids and Cones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Lesson 10.4: Volume Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Lesson 10.5: Displacement and Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Lesson 10.6: Volume of a Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Lesson 10.7: Surface Area of a Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 11
Lesson 11.1: Similar Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Lesson 11.2: Similar Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Lesson 11.3: Indirect Measurement with Similar Triangles . . . . . . . . . . 74
Lesson 11.4: Corresponding Parts of Similar Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Lesson 11.5: Proportions with Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Lesson 11.6: Proportions with Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Lesson 11.7: Proportional Segments Between Parallel Lines . . . . . . . . 78
Chapter 12
Lesson 12.1: Trigonometric Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Lesson 12.2: Problem Solving with Right Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Lesson 12.3: The Law of Sines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Lesson 12.4: The Law of Cosines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Lesson 12.5: Problem Solving with Trigonometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chapter 13
Lesson 13.1: The Premises of Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Lesson 13.2: Planning a Geometry Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Lesson 13.3: Triangle Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Lesson 13.4: Quadrilateral Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Lesson 13.5: Indirect Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Lesson 13.6: Circle Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Lesson 13.7: Similarity Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91vi
Introduction
The author and editors of Discovering Geometry: An Investigative Approach are
aware of the importance of students developing geometry skills along with
acquiring concepts through investigation. The student book includes many
skill-based exercises. These Practice Your Skills worksheets provide problems
similar to the introductory exercises in each lesson of Discovering Geometry. Like
those exercises, these worksheets allow students to practice and reinforce the
important procedures and skills developed in the lessons. Some of these problems
provide non contextual skills practice. Others give students an opportunity to
apply geometry concepts in fairly simple, straightforward contexts. Some are more
complex problems that are broken down into small steps.
You might assign the Practice Your Skills worksheet for every lesson, or only for
those lessons your students find particularly difficult. Or, you may wish to
assign the worksheets on an individual basis, only to those students who need
extra help. One worksheet has been provided for nearly every lesson. There are
no worksheets for Chapter 0, and the optional tessellation lessons have been
combined into two worksheets. To save you the time and expense of copying
pages, you can give students the inexpensive Practice Your Skills Student Workbook,
which does not have answers. Though the copyright allows you to copy pages
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