fsa parent guide geometry
FLORIDA
STUDENTS ACHIEVE
PARENT GUIDE Geometry
Preparing your child for success begins at home and continues as your child moves up through each grade. • Learn about the Geometry Florida Standards and why they matter for your child. • Talk with your child’s teachers about what they will be learning in the classroom. • Support your child’s learning in practical ways at home. Geometry students are learning to: • Establish triangle congruence criteria, based on analyses of rigid motions and formal constructions. • Identify criteria for similarity of triangles, use similarity to solve problems, and apply similarity in right triangles to understand right triangle trigonometry. • Extend the understanding of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects to include informal explanations of circumference, area and volume formulas. • Use a rectangular coordinate system to verify geometric relationships, including properties of special triangles and quadrilaterals and slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines. • Prove basic theorems about circles.
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Support Learning at Home Regardless of the grade level or school your child is in, you can encourage science inquiry at home in ways that are fun for you and your child. Try these ideas after school, on weekends and during the summer: • Discuss with your child the importance of geometry by showing them how people use geometry in everyday life. For example, planning construction projects, engineering projects, interior design and architecture. • Check with your child regularly regarding their geometry homework. Additionally, help with school projects when it is appropriate. If your child is experiencing difficulties with geometry, work with them to overcome trouble spots. • Assist your child with the use of calculators, computers, and the internet to do geometry at home. Tasks such as long and complex calculations, charts, tables, graphs and spreadsheets show the power of using geometry and technology together. Doing tasks that involve geometry and technology help prepare your children for the future. • Using websites can provide your child with geometry instruction, homework help, interactive geometry-focused games, interesting problems and challenging puzzles. • Ask your child questions and practice careful listening. Simple generic questions such as “What are the important concepts of the lesson?” can help your child gradually make sense of geometry, build confidence and encourage geometric thinking and communication. • Build a geometry toolkit. For example, use a shoebox with a lid and include sharpened pencils, a small pencil sharpener, large eraser, small pad for scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, protractor and a calculator. • Access student resources aligned to the standards at http://floridastudents.org.
Every child develops at their own pace. The activities in this guide are recommended age-specific guidelines for growing young minds.
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STUDENTS ACHIEVE
PARENT GUIDE Geometry
Preparing your child for success begins at home and continues as your child moves up through each grade. • Learn about the Geometry Florida Standards and why they matter for your child. • Talk with your child’s teachers about what they will be learning in the classroom. • Support your child’s learning in practical ways at home. Geometry students are learning to: • Establish triangle congruence criteria, based on analyses of rigid motions and formal constructions. • Identify criteria for similarity of triangles, use similarity to solve problems, and apply similarity in right triangles to understand right triangle trigonometry. • Extend the understanding of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects to include informal explanations of circumference, area and volume formulas. • Use a rectangular coordinate system to verify geometric relationships, including properties of special triangles and quadrilaterals and slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines. • Prove basic theorems about circles.
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Support Learning at Home Regardless of the grade level or school your child is in, you can encourage science inquiry at home in ways that are fun for you and your child. Try these ideas after school, on weekends and during the summer: • Discuss with your child the importance of geometry by showing them how people use geometry in everyday life. For example, planning construction projects, engineering projects, interior design and architecture. • Check with your child regularly regarding their geometry homework. Additionally, help with school projects when it is appropriate. If your child is experiencing difficulties with geometry, work with them to overcome trouble spots. • Assist your child with the use of calculators, computers, and the internet to do geometry at home. Tasks such as long and complex calculations, charts, tables, graphs and spreadsheets show the power of using geometry and technology together. Doing tasks that involve geometry and technology help prepare your children for the future. • Using websites can provide your child with geometry instruction, homework help, interactive geometry-focused games, interesting problems and challenging puzzles. • Ask your child questions and practice careful listening. Simple generic questions such as “What are the important concepts of the lesson?” can help your child gradually make sense of geometry, build confidence and encourage geometric thinking and communication. • Build a geometry toolkit. For example, use a shoebox with a lid and include sharpened pencils, a small pencil sharpener, large eraser, small pad for scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, protractor and a calculator. • Access student resources aligned to the standards at http://floridastudents.org.
Every child develops at their own pace. The activities in this guide are recommended age-specific guidelines for growing young minds.
FLORIDA
STUDENTS ACHIEVE VISIT WWW.FLORIDASTUDENTSACHIEVE.ORG FOR MORE PARENT RESOURCES
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