Fast Track: Geometry: Essential Review for AP, Honors, and Other Advanced Study

by The Princeton Review

Overview

GET UP TO SPEED WITH FAST TRACK: GEOMETRY! Covering the most important material taught in high school geometry classes, this essential review book gets readers on the fast track to class success, with critical information presented in an easy-to-follow quick-study format!

Inside this book, you'll find:
• Clear, concise summaries of the most important concepts, formulas, and geometric skills
• Diagrams, charts, and graphs for quick visual reference
• Easy-to-follow content organization and illustrations

With its friendly, straightforward approach and a clean, colorful modern design crafted to appeal to visual learners, this guidebook is perfect for catching up in class or getting ahead on exam review.

Topics covered in Fast Track: Geometry include:
• Key terms
• Angles
• Polygons
• Circles
• Congruence and similarity
• Constructions
• Transformations
• Trigonometry
• Three-dimensional figures
• Reasoning and proofs
• Perimeter, area, and volume
... and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525571865
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	11/30/2021
Series:	High School Subject Review: General
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	32 MB
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About the Author

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Table of Contents

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Introduction|vii

Chapter 1 Intro and Vocab 1

Introductory vocabulary 2

Angles 6

Parallel and perpendicular lines 9

Intro to area and perimeter 14

Chapter 2 Properties of Triangles 21

Types of triangles 23

Perimeter and area 25

Bisectors, altitudes, mIdsegments, and medians 26

Different "centers" of a triangle 28

Other triangle properties 31

Chapter 3 Properties of Quadrilaterals and other Polygons 37

Polygons 38

Quadrilaterals 43

Other properties of polygons 51

Chapter 4 Properties of Circles 53

Area and circumference 56

Chords, secants, and tangents 61

Arcs and sectors 64

Inscribed angles and intercepted arcs 67

Slices of PI 69

Radians 73

Incircle and circumcircle 76

Chapter 5 Congruence and Similarity 79

Triangle congruence rules 81

Similarity 85

Triangle similarity rules 86

Chapter 6 Constructions 91

Constructing lines and angles 92

Constructing polygons 109

Circumcenter/circumcircle 119

Incenter/incircle 125

The centroid and orthocenter 132

Circumcenter of a quadrilateral 134

Incenter of a quadrilateral 138

Chapter 7 Connecting Algebra and Geometry 143

Algebra and the coordinate plane 144

Distance and midpoint 152

Parabolas 157

Chapter 8 Transformations 169

Intro to transformations 170

Translation 171

Reflection 178

Rotation 182

Symmetry 186

Dilations 191

Dilations in the coordinate plane 199

Chapter 9 Trigonometry 203

Trigonometric ratios 204

Complementary angles 209

Trigonometry with non-right triangles 218

Chapter 10 Three-Dimensional Figures 223

Intro to three-dimensional figures 224

Volume and surface area 233

Chapter 11 Reasoning and Proofs 245

Inductive and deductive reasoning 246

Conditional statements 249

Proofs 253