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Geometry: An Interactive Journey to Mastery

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Languages

English
Duration & workload

18 hours 20 minutes
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Intermediate

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Experience an intuitive and fun approach to learning the subject of geometry in this course taught by an award-winning educator.

Syllabus

01: Geometry—Ancient Ropes and Modern Phones
02: Beginnings—Jargon and Undefined Terms
03: Angles and Pencil-Turning Mysteries
04: Understanding Polygons
05: The Pythagorean Theorem
06: Distance, Midpoints, and Folding Ties
07: The Nature of Parallelism
08: Proofs and Proof Writing
09: Similarity and Congruence
10: Practical Applications of Similarity
11: Making Use of Linear Equations
12: Equidistance—A Focus on Distance
13: A Return to Parallelism
14: Exploring Special Quadrilaterals
15: The Classification of Triangles
16: Circle-ometry—On Circular Motion
17: Trigonometry through Right Triangles
18: What Is the Sine of 1°?
19: The Geometry of a Circle
20: The Equation of a Circle
21: Understanding Area
22: Explorations with Pi
23: Three-Dimensional Geometry—Solids
24: Introduction to Scale
25: Playing with Geometric Probability
26: Exploring Geometric Constructions
27: The Reflection Principle
28: Tilings, Platonic Solids, and Theorems
29: Folding and Conics
30: The Mathematics of Symmetry
31: The Mathematics of Fractals
32: Dido's Problem
33: The Geometry of Braids—Curious Applications
34: The Geometry of Figurate Numbers
35: Complex Numbers in Geometry
36: Bending the Axioms—New Geometries
By This Professor

Taught by

James Tanton

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