LIVE 9: Geometry
Su 12–1am from 3/20 (Your Time*)
This LIVE course contains a total of 25 hours of live video instruction (~$18/hour), plus 1 year of access to Prof. Loh's recorded videos from this course.
We’ve carefully designed our courses to maximize engagement. Each of our LIVE classrooms has a 1:13 staff to student ratio, with a maximum of 40 students.
* The official meeting time for this course is 8:00pm in New York.
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Syllabus
The 20 course meetings are split in 16 lessons (called Day 1 through Day 16 below), and 4 homework exam discussions. Each exam discussion meeting happens after 4 lessons.
Day 1
Exterior and interior angles; degrees in a circle; symmetry; sum of angles in triangle; altitude and area of an equilateral triangle; Pythagorean Thm; simplifying radicals; similar triangles and area scaling; 30°-60°-90° triangles; trick for squaring numbers ending in 5
Day 2
Regular octagons; right isosceles triangles; similar triangles; Pythagorean Thm; simplifying radical denominators; variable equations; polygon area; midpoints; corresponding and alternate interior angles; angle-chasing method
Day 3
Areas of circular sections; areas of intersections of circles; radius; equilateral triangles; inscribed angles and arcs; area of a triangle; 30°-60°-90° right triangles; area of a lune; ratios of areas of similar figures
Day 4
Area of parallelograms; altitude of a triangle; special triangles (3-5-7, right, obtuse); exterior angles; manipulating diagrams; 30°-60°-90° triangles; isosceles trapezoids; factoring; variable equations
Day 5
Right trapezoids; 8-15-17 right triangles; Pythagorean Thm; AAA similarity and scaling; corresponding angles; simplifying ratios; kite area and diagonals; angle chasing; symmetry; complementary angles
Day 6
Inscribed and central angles; inscribed angle thm; isosceles triangles; supplementary angles; exterior angle thm; variables; arc measure; subtended arcs; secant lines; intersecting secant angle thm; angles of intersecting chords
Day 7
Chords; midpoints; 8-15-17 and 3-4-5 right triangles; ratios and scaling; inscribed angles and arcs; congruency; Pythagorean Thm; similar triangles; intersecting chords thm; difference of squares; common chords; circumscribed circle on three points
Day 8
Cyclic quadrilaterals; arc measure; inscribed angles; degrees in a circle; exterior angle thm; supplementary angles; intersecting chord angle thm; counting; secant and tangent lines to a circle; secant-tangent product thm
Day 9
Concentric circles; right triangles; Pythagorean Thm; symmetry; angle between radius and tangent of a circle; congruent triangles; simplifying radicals; externally tangent circles; equilateral triangles; areas of circular sectors
Day 10
Angle between tangent and chord to a circle; angle between radius and tangent; intersecting chord angle thm; secant-tangent and tangent-tangent inscribed angles; angles of cyclic quadrilaterals; inscribed angle thm; proof techniques
Day 11
External and internal tangents to two circles; parallel lines and corresponding angles; Pythagorean Thm; 5-12-13 and 3-4-5 right triangles; similar triangles and scaling; prime numbers; manipulations of diagrams
Day 12
Tangent-tangent segments to a circle; Pythagorean Thm; kites; similar triangles; angle bisector; area and sums of pairs of sides of quadrilateral with inscribed circle; area of a triangle
Day 13
Angle bisector thm; isosceles and congruent triangles; area and altitude of a triangle; ratios and scaling; golden ratio; simplifying radical denominators; proof of angle bisector thm; inscribed circle in a triangle; estimation
Day 14
Reflected angles; minimizing path length; triangle inequality; opposite interior angles; congruency; transversals and corresponding angles; Pythagorean Thm; 3-D path length; manipulating 3-D diagrams; estimation
Day 15
Triangle inequality; counting; case analysis
Day 16
Special triangles; area of a triangle; Pythagorean triples; scaling; proof of Heron's formula; semiperimeter; Pythagorean Thm; polynomials; common chord to two circles; 30°-60°-90° triangle
Co-Stars
ERIC ZHAN
National MATHCOUNTS competitor for Washington • 2022 USAJMO winner • Likes to swim
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NASTIA RUDENKO
Member of Ukranian nationals team for EGMO • Winner of Sharygin Geometry Olympaid
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