| Instructor Benjamin Hartung Email [email protected] Phone 916.462.4570 Class Cost: $280/per semester | GEOMETRY Course Syllabus T-TH 12:45pm-1:40pm Fall 2025- Spring 2026 |
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| Course Purpose and Description | Geometry is a High School Math course designed to teach critical thinking and logic. We will cover all the geometry concepts such as proofs, Geometric Mean, Angles, Dimensions and Vectors. Geometry is a course that takes what we have learned of problem solving and logic and teach the student how to prove the facts. |
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| Expectations | Students will be expected to
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| Grading | Grading is a group effort between the instructor, the parent, and the charter schoolteacher. Our time in class will be spent going over the lesson work. They will have on average 2 lessons to complete as homework after each class (whatever time we have left in class after the planned lesson is done, I allow them to work on homework. We will have weekly tests that will primarily tell me if your student is learning. Each semester will be graded on a 1,000-point total. Every point that that earn will go towards their grade. |
| Point Breakdown | Attendance 30 per semester | Students will earn attendance points for being present in class. 1 point for arriving on time, 1 point for paying attention and 1 point for being there. | 3 points each (90/semester 180 Total) |
| Lessons 60 per semester | Every day we will go over approximately 2 lessons from the book. I will send the students home with a sheet for the parent to sign saying the completed the lessons. | 5 points each (300/semester 600 Total) | |
| Investigations 6 per semester | We will undergo special class project on certain days what isn’t finished in class will be taken as homework. | 25 points each (150/semester 300 Total) | |
| Labs 8 fall 7 spring | Labs will be at home projects, that the students will do on their own or together. LAB 15 will be worth 40 points | 20 points each (160/semester 320 Total) | |
| Tests 12 fall 11 spring | 23 tests will be administered through the year. 12 in the first semester and 11 in the second. Test 23 will be worth 50 point instead of 25 | 25 points each (300/semester 600 total) | |
| Extra Credit | Every practice problem done is worth 1 point of extra credit. | 250 Max Extra Credit Pts |
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Minimum: 1
Maximum: 20
Registration starts on 05/01/2026 and ends on 05/01/2027.
Room: Nursery Room
Please contact Greenhouse Enrichment if you have any questions.