This is part two of a three-part School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) textbook. This part includes the index and chapters 6 through 10: (6) Curve Sketching and Locus Problems, (7) Conic Sections, (8) The Line and the Plane in 3-Space, (9) Quadric Surfaces, and (10) Geometric Transformations. (MK)

This is unit twelve of a fifteen-unit SMSG secondary school text for high school students. The text is devoted almost entirely to mathematical concepts which all citizens should know in order to function satisfactorily in our society. Chapter topics include rigid motions and coordinates, squares and rectangles, and square roots and real numbers.…

This is part one of a three-part School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) textbook. This part contains the first five chapters including: (1) Analytic Geometry, (2) Coordinates and the Line, (3) Vectors and Their Applications, (4) Proof by Analytic Methods, and (5) Graphs and Their Equations. (MK)

This is one in a series of SMSG supplementary and enrichment pamphlets for high school students. This series is designed to make material for the study of topics of special interest to students readily accessible in classroom quantity. Topics covered include graphs, slope, distance, mid-point, proof, equations, and circles. (MP)

This is part three of a three-part School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) textbook. It contains eight chapters of supplements. Four of these are designed to be supplements to the specific chapters 2, 3, 7, and 10. The other four supplements cover the topics: Determinants; Flow Chart for Two Linear Equations in x and y; Graphs with Non-uniform…

People are noted as intrigued for centuries by interplay between algebra and geometry with many important advances viewed to have come down through some sort of linking of the two. Examples are given of advantages to learning and discovery that can be found in an investigative approach combining them. (Author/MP)

This is unit fifteen of a fifteen-unit SMSG secondary school text for high school students. The text is devoted almost entirely to mathematical concepts which all citizens should know in order to function satisfactorily in our society. Chapter topics include analyzing geometric figures and measurement. (MP)

Presents a game used to help students learning polar coordinates in precalculus class. The game is a variation of the game Battleship with the major difference being that students use polar coordinates. Includes reproducible student worksheets and directions. (MKR)

This is unit eleven of a fifteen-unit SMSG secondary school text for high school students. The text is devoted almost entirely to mathematical concepts which all citizens should know in order to function satisfactorily in our society. Chapter topics include coordinate geometry and problem analysis. (MP)

This paper describes a classroom, instructor-led activity designed to show how graphic calculators can be used to explore coordinate geometry. The activity involves digitizing an image of a hand and transforming the image through geometrical transformations. Teaching notes and calculator instructions are included as are blackline masters. Also…

This booklet contains 11 modules (290 multiple-choice items) designed for use in the first course of a three-course calculus sequence using the textbook "Calculus with Analytic Geometry" (Dennis G. Zill). In each module, relevant sections of the textbook are identified for users. It can, however, be used in conjunction with any calculus textbook.…

This is one in a series of SMSG supplementary and enrichment pamphlets for high school students. This series is designed to make material for the study of topics of special interest to students readily accessible in classroom quantity. Topics covered include a three dimensional coordinate system, distance formula, the equation of a plane, first…

Presents an activity in which students draw a picture, analyze each line and curve, and write the symbolic equations represented by the graph. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

Presents a lesson plan detailing an interdisciplinary mathematics/science activity in which students find the balance and center of gravity of a map of the United States. Contains reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

Presents a worksheet on graph paper that allows students to determine the perpendicular bisectors of given segments by folding the paper. Students then determine the slopes of the perpendicular bisectors and use inductive thinking to discover the relationship between the slopes of perpendicular lines. (MDH)