Thursday, February 5, 2009
This section used proportions to find the lengths of sides with the known information. Utilizing this is simple and easy. If you have one variable you can figure it out by using your proportions. We know that in all triangles (or "parts" of ones) with a parallel line in inside of the triangle, the two sides that are split in two are proportional. Knowing this information can help with proofs and other problems.
Friday, January 30, 2009
7.2
Monday, January 26, 2009
Section 6.6-Trapazoids and Kites
Today we learned about trapezoids and kites. Some of the characteristics of a trapezoid are that it has two parallel lines and those lines are the bases. Also the non-parallel sides are the legs. The kites have two congruent angles and these angles are the angles from the non congruent sides. The kites are only quadrilaterals and do not belong to the parallelogram family and the trapezoids do. That is what we learned from section 6.6 and the DyKnow above helps explain the kites and trapezoids more thoroughly.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
6.4
Section 6-1
Monday, January 12, 2009
section 6-3 parallelograms
One opposite pair of sides theorem: if one pair of sides of a quadrilateral are parallel and congruent, then it is a parallelogram.
More ways to prove a quadrilateral is a parallelogram:
Both pairs of opposite sides are parallel
both pairs of opposite sides are congruent
both pairs of opposite angles are congruent
any angle is supplementary to both of its consecutive angles
diagonals bisect eachother
one pair of opposite sides are congruent and parallel
Thursday, January 8, 2009
We learned today how to find the sum of all of the interior angles in a convex polygon and how to find the sum of each interior angle. It is called the Interior angles theorem. (n stands for number of sides)
We also found out that all exterior angles of a polygon will add up to 360 no matter what. To find the measure of each exterior angle just divide 360 by n.
Section 6.2: Parallelograms
· The diagonals in a polygon are segments joining two nonconsecutive sides
# of diagonals in a polygon = the number of sides minus 2.
· A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides that are parallel
Opposite Sides Theorem:
The opposite sides of a parallelogram are congruent
Opposite Angles Theorem:
The opposite angles of a parallelogram are congruent
If one angle is 90 degrees, then all four angles are 90 degrees
Consecutive Angles Theorem:
Consecutive angles in a parallelogram are supplementary
Ex: the measure of angle S is congruent to the measure of angle A
The measure of angle A is congruent to the measure of angle T
The measure of angle N is congruent to the measure of angle S
The measure of angle T is congruent to the measure of angle N
Parallel Diagonal Theorem:
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Section 5.4.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Sec 5.5
-If two sides of one triangle are congruent to two sides of another triangle and the included angle of the 1st is larger than the included angle of the 2nd, then the 3rd side of the 1st is longer than the 3rd side of the 2nd.
Converse of Hinge Theorem (SSS Inequality)
-If two sides of one triangle are congruent to two sides of another triangle and the third side of the first is longer than the third side of the 2nd, then the included angle of the 1st is larger than the included angle of the 2nd.