Honors Geometry "Challenge" Problems

[Anonymous]

My daughter seems to understand what they cover in her honors geometry class, but the tests seems to consist of these "challenge" problems that take what they've learned and have a little twist - either something they learned back in the beginning of class that you didn't recently cover that you need to use to solve the question or it just combines or words the problem in a different way.

Can anyone share some resources where my daughter might be able to practice with some tougher problems than they have for class or for homework to try to get him thinking like this for his tests? Happy to hear from parents or teachers!

[Anonymous]

Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Has your daughter asked her teacher for assistance on this? If so and she still needs help, I'd seek a Math tutor who has experience teaching the class at another MoCo high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter seems to understand what they cover in her honors geometry class, but the tests seems to consist of these "challenge" problems that take what they've learned and have a little twist - either something they learned back in the beginning of class that you didn't recently cover that you need to use to solve the question or it just combines or words the problem in a different way.

Can anyone share some resources where my daughter might be able to practice with some tougher problems than they have for class or for homework to try to get him thinking like this for his tests? Happy to hear from parents or teachers!

Arts of Problem Solving Geometry book

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter seems to understand what they cover in her honors geometry class, but the tests seems to consist of these "challenge" problems that take what they've learned and have a little twist - either something they learned back in the beginning of class that you didn't recently cover that you need to use to solve the question or it just combines or words the problem in a different way.

Can anyone share some resources where my daughter might be able to practice with some tougher problems than they have for class or for homework to try to get him thinking like this for his tests? Happy to hear from parents or teachers!

Arts of Problem Solving Geometry book

Alcumus, which is completely free (and also made by Art of Problem Solving). It has thousands of challenging geometry problems, all with full solutions and an adaptive algorithm that lets the user level up (or down) depending on how they do on each problem. Many of the problems are referenced to specific sections in their Geometry textbook, so they complement each other very well. You can also choose a specific geomtry subtopic to focus on (for example Similar triangles, or Pythagorean theorem, etc). This is really useful for studying for school tests, or even training for math competitions. Alcumus will only give problems related to that topic (while still adaptively adjusting the problem difficulty within that topic).

A small note of caution though: For someone who likes math, Alcumus can get very addictive.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, PPs!