Acronyms
This acronym is used to prove two similar triangles by stating that two angles in a triangle are congruent to corresponding angles of another triangle.
What is A.A. similarity?
A triangle with a right angle, a hypotenuse, and 2 complementary angles located on the same line.
What is a right triangle?
(1/2)(base)(height)
What is area of a triangle?
When doing proofs in geometry, you always start with this step.
What is writing the given?
This is the abbreviation for calculator and not calculus.
What is "calc"?
This capital letter in volume formula represents the area formula for the base shape of the 3D figure.
A triangle with a vertex angle, two congruent sides, and two congruent angles located on the same line.
What is an isosceles triangle?
square root of: [(x2-x1)2+(y2-y1)2]
What is distance formula?
These are made up of translations, rotations, and reflections, but not dilations.
What are rigid motions?
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Who is Joseph O'Keefe?
This acronym is a way to prove triangle are congruent by stating that if two sides and an angle (located in between those two sides) are congruent to the corresponding parts of another triangle.
What is S.A.S. congruency?
Although this figure is not a 2D "flat" triangle, it is a 3D figure that consist of many triangular sides.
What is a pyramid?
(x-h)2 + (y-k)2 = r2
What is the equation of a circle formula?
The sum of the two non-adjacent interior angles equal the exterior angle of a triangle.
What is the exterior angle theorem?
The fact that Ms. Scerra has to stand up, yell, repeat herself and correct a group of scholar's behavior is this.
What is embarrassing?
This acronym is used to find side lengths or angle measurements of triangles using opposite sides, adjacent sides, and the hypotenuse.
What is S.O.H.C.A.H.T.O.A.?
This figure is made when a right triangle is rotated about one of its legs.
What is a cone?
[(x1+x2/2), (y1+y2/2)]
What is midpoint formula?
To use these types of angles, you need parallel lines, a transversal, and a "z" shape.
What are alternate interior angles?
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These acronyms are used to find side lengths of a triangle by using altitudes, segments, legs, and hypotenuse.
What are H.L.L.S. and S.A.A.S.?
A great example of these types of triangles are 45-45-90 triangles and 30-60-90 triangles.
What are special right triangles?
V = (2/3)(pi)(radius3)
What is volume of a hemisphere?
This type of geometry is used when there is a graph, like Part IV of the Regents. It includes using formulas such as distance and slope, and includes knowing about vectors, rigid motions, and dilations.
What is coordinate geometry?
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Who is Ms. Scerra?