MATH 217:Elementary Geometry

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture hours per week: 3
Lab hours per week: 0

Prerequisite(s): A grade of “C” or higher in MATH 117 .
This course is designed for elementary education majors. The emphasis of the course is measurement and geometry. Topics include basic notations of Geometry, choosing appropriate units, unit conversions, estimating measurement, measurement of length, circumference, measurement of weight, measurement of area, temperature, angles and parallels, Geometric constructs, angles of a triangle, polygons, centers and lines of symmetry, congruent figures, similarity, tessellations, area of triangles, area of other polygons, the Pythagorean Theorem, surface area, and volume.