This course is aimed at motivating curiosity and developing ability in problem solving techniques. Students working individually, and in small group sessions, will be provided with a variety of problem solving situations that can be approached via several modes of solution. Emphasis is on presentation of enjoyable problems that provide opportunities for intuitive and inductive reasoning, mathematical discovery, reasoning skills, creativity and originality of thought.
Students learn best when they construct their own mathematical understanding.
This quote from the U.S.Department of Education sums up how students will learn geometry in this course. You will use all your thinking skills to invent, investigate and make connections about geometry properties. This course is designed to strengthen students conceptual understanding of mathematics and to lay the groundwork for the study of higher mathematical areas such as algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus. Topics include arithmetic structures, set theory, logic, relations and functions, sequences and series, and higher mathematical structures. An excellent course for the development of a good mathematical base.