GEOMETRY CARD FILE ASSIGNMENT

PURPOSE

To help you manage all the facts (theorems, definitions, formulas, etc.) that you will learn in CP Geometry.

MATERIALS

3” X 5” index cards

DESCRIPTION

1. For each chapter you study, you will be given an assigned list of terms. (You may always make more than I have assigned.) The list won’t contain every term, just some that I have chosen.

2. You will have six types of cards in the Card File- definitions, postulates, properties, theorems, corollaries, and formulas. On the front of all cards, you should note the chapter, section, and page number in the lower right hand corner of the card .Also on the front of each card, you will write either the definition word, postulate name, property name, theorem number or name, corollary number, or formula name whichever applies. On the back, write the full statement of the definition or whatever type of card it is, with a labeled diagram and number example of its. For formula cards, write the formula and an example. The theorem cards require a Given, Prove, And Diagram on the back.

3. The Card File has a required order of cards. That order is as follows: Definitions, Properties, Postulates, Theorems, Corollaries, and Formulas that don’t fit one of the other categories. Please put definition cards in alphabetical order. The theorems, properties, and postulates should appear in the order in which you have learned them. Corollaries should follow the theorem to which it belongs. Your name should appear on a card at the front. So the final order of the cards is all alphabetized definitions first, followed by properties in order learned, followed by Postulates in numerical order, then Theorems in numerical order and last formulas in the order they appear in the text. DO NOT DIVIDE THE CARD FILE BY CHAPTERS.

GRADING

1. On test days, your file will be collected and graded. I will arbitrarily pick certain cards to grade at each test.

2. Each time, I collect and grade the cards it will be worth a total of 10 points.

3. Files will be graded for completeness, accuracy, and neatness.

4. If you have forgotten your Card File on the day of a test, you will receive a zero. In other words NO LATE Card Files.

5. If you are absent on the day of the test, you must remember to bring in your Card File to me the next day of class.

6. There will be other days that I ask for the Card File in class. They will be announced at those times.

CHAPTER 1 POINTS, LINES, PLANES, AND ANGLES
DEFINITIONS		POSTULATES		THEOREMS
point	angle	Ruler Postulate		1.1
line	acute angle	Segment Addition Postulate		1.2
plane	right angle	Protractor Postulate		1.3
collinear points	obtuse angle	Angle Addition Postulate
segment	straight angle	Postulate 6
ray	congruent angles	Postulate 7
opposite rays	adjacent angles	Postulate 8
congruent segments	bisector of an angle	Postulate 9
midpoint of a segment	bisector of a segment
coplanar points
CHAPTER 2 DEDUCTIVE REASONING
DEFINITIONS		PROPERTIES		THEOREMS
conditional		Addition Property		Midpoint Theorem
hypothesis		Subtraction Property		Angle Bisector Theorem
conclusion		Reflexive Property		2.3
converse		Symmetric Property		2.4
counterexample		Transitive Property		2.5
biconditional		Substitution		2.6
complementary angles				2.7
supplementary angles				2.8
vertical angles
perpendicular lines
CHAPTER 3 PARALLEL LINES AND PLANES
DEFINITIONS		THEOREMS		POSTULATES
parallel lines	isosceles triangle	3.1	3.8	Postulate 10
skew lines	acute triangle	3.2	3.9	Postulate 11
parallel planes	obtuse triangle	3.3	3.10	COROLLARIES
alternate interior angles	right triangle	3.4	3.11	1,2,3,4(for thm 3.11)
same-side interior angles	equiangular triangle	3.5	3.12
corresponding angles	polygon	3.6	3.13	FORMULAS
transversal	convex polygon	3.7	3.14	each exterior angle
triangle	diagonal			each interior angle
scalene triangle	regular polygon