Geometry - Extra Credit Options

If ALL regular work is completed and turned in, Extra Credit activities will be accepted.

EC is due no later than the week after the test for that chapter, with the exception of Chapter 3, which must be due at the end of 1st Quarter.

Chapter

EC Activities

Points

Chapter 1:
Tools of Geometry


Enrichment 1-1: Orthographic Projections

Enrichment 1-2: Assembly Required

Enrichment 1-3: Segment Addition

Puzzle 1-3: What is a Line's Favorite Kind of Fruit?

Enrichment 1-4: Spreading Seeds

Puzzle 1-4: Word Search

Enrichment 1-5: Angling for More Time

Activity 1-5: Vertical Angles
Use Geometer's Sketchpad, or any math drawing software

Concept Byte: Compass Designs
-- p. 42 intext book

Enrichment 1-6: Optical Illusions

Puzzle 1-6: Mystery Pictures

Concept Byte: Exploring Constructions -- p. 49 in textbook
Use Geometer's Sketchpad, or any math drawing software
that distinguishes between 'Draw' and 'Construct'

Enrichment 1-7: A Closer Look at the Midpoint Formula

Pull it All Together -- p. 69 in textbook

Choose four activities for up to 15 points.

More may be done, but in groups of four

Chapter 2: Reasoning
and Proof


Enrichment 2-1: Using an Area Model

Puzzle 2-1: Code Breaker

Concept Byte: Logic and Truth Tables
-- p. 96 in textbook

Enrichment 2-2: Conditional Chains

Activity 2-2: IF, THEN, GOTO

Enrichment 2-3: Defining and Classifying Shapes

Activity 2-3: Definition Editor

Enrichment 2-4: Forms of Logical Argument

Puzzle2-4: Statement-Conclusion Match-up

Enrichment 2-5: False Proofs

Enrichment 2-6: Law of Reflection

Puzzle 2-6: Crossword

Pull it All Together -- p. 128 in textbook

Choose four activities for up to 15 points.

More may be done, but in groups of four

Chapter 3:
Parallel and Perpendicular Lines


Enrichment 3-1: Lines and Angles

Enrichment 3-2: Mirror Properties

Activity 3-2: Playing Football

Enrichment 3-3: Proving Lines Parallel

Puzzle 3-3: Cross-Number

Enrichment 3-4: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

Concept Byte: Perpendicular Lines and Planes
-- p. 170 in textbook

Enrichment 3-5: Applying the Triangle Angle-Sum Theorem

Activity 3-5: Angle Dynamics

Concept Byte: Exploring Spherical Geometry
-- p. 179 in textbook

Enrichment 3-6: Constructing a Regular Octagon

Puzzle 3-6: House Construction

Enrichment 3-7: Equations of Lines in the Coordinate Plane

Enrichment 3-8: Miniature Golf

Puzzle 3-8: On the Cutting Edge

Pull it All Together -- p. 205 in textbook

Choose four activities for up to 15 points.

More may be done, but in groups of four


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