"Excellent supplements for standard textbooks, offering readers friendly introductions to foundational concepts while using plain language, clear examples, and end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce key concepts."
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The Big Fat Notebooks go to high school! A lively, fully illustrated guide to acing high school geometry, with clear notes on the big ideas, helpful tips for memorizing processes and remembering definitions, and lively doodles that make math easier to understand (and fun to study).

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Christy Needham began her career as a high school math teacher. She went on to develop the math materials and curriculum for a major worldwide education company. She enjoys volunteering with math professional development within the community and at her children’s school.  She currently resides in Simi Valley, California. 

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Geometry? No problem!

A lively, fully illustrated guide to acing high school geometry, with clear notes on the big ideas, helpful tips for memorizing processes and remembering definitions, and lively doodles that make math easier to understand (and fun to study).

This Big Fat Notebook covers everything you need to know during a year of high school geometry class, breaking down one big bad subject into accessible units. Learn to study better and get better grades using mnemonic devices, definitions, diagrams, educational doodles, and quizzes to recap it all.

Featuring:

• Logic and reasoning
• Parallel lines
• Triangles and congruence
• Trapezoids and kites
• Ratio and proportion
• The pythagorean theorem
• The fundamentals of circles
• Area
• Volume of prisms and cylinders
• And more!

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CONTENTS
 
UNIT 1:  BASICS OF GEOMETRY

1. Introduction to Geometry

2. Points, Lines, and Planes

3. Angles

4. Angle Pairs

5. Constructions

6. Logic and Reasoning

7. Introduction to Geometric Proofs  
   UNIT 2:  PARALLEL LINES

8. Parallel Lines and Transversals

9. Collecting and Using Information

10. Parallel Line Theorems

11. Proving Lines Parallel  
    UNIT 3: TRIANGLES AND CONGRUENCE

12. Types of Triangles

13. Interior and Exterior Angles

14. Side Side Side (SSS) and Side Angle Side (SAS) Congruence

15. Angle Side Angle (ASA) and Angle Angle Side (AAS) Congruence

16. Triangle Bisectors

17. Triangle Inequalities  
    UNIT 4: QUADRILATERALS AND POLYGONS

18. Parallelograms

19. Rhombuses, Rectangles, and Squares

20. Trapezoids and Kites

21. Polygons  
    UNIT 5: GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS

22. Reflections

23. Translations

24. Rotations

25. Compositions

26. Congruence  
    UNIT 6: SIMILARITY

27. Ratio and Proportion

28. Dilations

29. Similar Figures

30. Similar Triangles

31. Proportions in Triangles  
    UNIT 7: RIGHT TRIANGLES AND TRIGONOMETRY

32. Slopes and Equations of Lines

33. The Pythagorean Theorem

34. Midpoint and Distance Formulas

35. Coordinate Triangle Proofs

36. Coordinate Quadrilateral Proofs

37. Trigonometric Ratios

38. Law of Sines and Cosines  
    UNIT 8: CIRCLES

39. The Fundamentals of Circles

40. Central Angles and Arcs

41. Radian Measure

42. Arcs and Chords

43. Inscribed Angles

44. Tangents

45. Secants and Other Segments

46. Equations of Circles  
    UNIT 9: AREA

47. Area of Triangles and Parallelograms

48. Area of Other Polygons

49. Area of Circles and Sectors

50. Area of Composite Figures  
    UNIT 10: SURFACE AREA AND VOLUME

51. Surface Area of Prisms and Cylinders

52. Surface Area of Pyramids and Cones

53. Volume of Prisms and Cylinders

54. Surface Area and Volume of Spheres

55. Volume of Composite 3-D Figures

56. Surface Area and Volume in Solids of Revolution