high school mathematics
The aim of this meta entry is to index entries suitable forhigh school students.
Basics
- 1.
set, union, intersection
- 2.
natural numbers
, rational numbers
, real numbers
- 3.
associativity of multiplication
- 4.
product of negative numbers
- 5.
equation, inequality
- 6.
proportion equation, proportionality of numbers
- 7.
per cent
- 8.
mathematical induction
- 9.
proof by contradiction
- 10.
converse
- 11.
contrapositive
Algebra
- 1.
opposite number, difference
- 2.
inverse number, division
- 3.
multiple
, product
- 4.
entries on rational numbers
- 5.
irrational numbers
- 6.
factorization of integers
- 7.
linear equation
- 8.
square of sum
- 9.
difference of squares
- 10.
grouping method for factoring polynomials
- 11.
factoring a sum or difference of two cubes
- 12.
zero rule of product
- 13.
http://planetmath.org/ConjugationMnemonicconjugation
- 14.
even-even-odd rule
- 15.
completing the square
- 16.
square roots of rationals
- 17.
quadratic formula
- 18.
quadratic inequality
- 19.
strange root
- 20.
inequality with absolute values
- 21.
absolute value inequalities
- 22.
long division of polynomials
Geometry
- 1.
basic geometric figures:
- –
points
- –
lines
- –
planes
- –
line segments
- –
rays
- –
angles
- –
triangles
- –
parallelograms
- –
rectangles
- –
trapezoids
- –
polygons
- –
regular polygons
- –
base and height of triangle
- –
circles
- –
parts of a ball
- –
cylinder
- –
solid cone
- –
- 2.
basic geometric properties:
- –
intersections
- –
http://planetmath.org/Betweennessbetween
- –
endpoints
- –
http://planetmath.org/Midpoint
midpoints
- –
parallelism
- –
perpendicularity
- –
http://planetmath.org/Congruence
congruence
- –
similarity
- –
similar triangles
- –
tangent of circle
- –
- 3.
acute angles
, convex angles, radian
- 4.
complementary angles
, supplementary angles
, explementary angles
- 5.
angle between two lines, angle of view
- 6.
projection of point
- 7.
locus
- 8.
normal line
, angle bisector
, angle bisector as locus, center normal as locus
- 9.
measurements (lengths, areas, and volumes) of basic geometric figures
- 10.
compass and straightedge constructions:
- –
http://planetmath.org/Midpointmidpoint
- –
perpendicular bisector
- –
dropping the perpendicular
from a point to a line
- –
erecting the perpendicular to a line at a point
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfAngleBisectorangle bisector
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfRegularTriangleregular triangle
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfDuplicatingAnAngleduplicating an angle
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfCenterOfGivenCirclecenter of a circle
- –
construction of tangent
- –
http://planetmath.org/Circumcenter
circle passing through three noncollinear points
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfParallelLineparallel line
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfSquaresquare
- –
http://planetmath.org/NSectionOfLineSegmentWithCompassAndStraightedge-section
of line segment
- –
circle with given center and given radius
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfSimilarTrianglessimilar triangles
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfGeometricMeangeometric mean
- –
http://planetmath.org/ConstructionOfCentralProportioncentral proportional
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfInversePointinverse point
with respect to a circle
- –
http://planetmath.org/CompassAndStraightedgeConstructionOfRegularPentagonregular pentagon
- –
http://planetmath.org/ConstructionOfRegular2nGonFromRegularNGonconstruction of regular -gon from regular -gon
- –
- 11.
trisection of angle
- 12.
axiomatic proofs in geometry
:
- –
angles of an isosceles triangle
- –
determining from angles that a triangle is isosceles
- –
isosceles triangle theorem
- –
converse of isosceles triangle theorem
- –
parallelogram theorems
- –
regular polygon and circles
- –
Pythagorean theorem
and its various proofs:
- *
http://planetmath.org/ProofOfPythagoreasTheoremusing four congruent
triangles and a square
- *
http://planetmath.org/ProofOfPythagoreanTheoremdropping altitude
to form three similar triangles
- *
http://planetmath.org/GarfieldsProofOfPythagoreanTheoremGarfield’s proof
- *
http://planetmath.org/ProofOfPythagoreanTheorem2two dissections of a square with side
- *
- –
construct the center of a given circle
- –
Thales’ theorem
and its http://planetmath.org/ProofOfThalesTheoremproof
- –
opposing angles in a cyclic quadrilateral
are supplementary
- –
mid-segment theorem
- –
Analytic geometry
- 1.
analytic geometry
- 2.
Cartesian coordinates
- 3.
coordinates of midpoint
- 4.
slope
- 5.
tangent line
- 6.
condition of orthogonality
- 7.
http://planetmath.org/AngleBetweenTwoLinesangle between two lines
- 8.
conics (ellipse
, hyperbola, parabola)
- 9.
polar coordinates
Vectors and Matrices
- 1.
sum of vectors (i.e. parallelogram principle), difference of vectors
- 2.
Euclidean vectors
- 3.
mutual positions of vectors
- 4.
scalar product
- 5.
matrices, addition and multiplication of matrices
Trigonometry
- 1.
right triangle
- 2.
regular triangle
- 3.
isosceles triangle
- 4.
altitudes
- 5.
bisectors
- 6.
ASA, SSS, SAS, SSA (triangle solving)
- 7.
exact trigonometry tables
- 8.
sohcahtoa
- 9.
determining signs of trigonometric functions
- 10.
addition formulas for sine and cosine
- 11.
addition formula for tangent
- 12.
goniometric formulae
- 13.
trigonometric equation
Functions
- 1.
definitions and operations
of functions
- 2.
argument
- 3.
polynomial functions (including linear functions
)
- 4.
rational functions
- 5.
functions involving
- 6.
exponential functions
- 7.
Briggsian logarithms
- 8.
trigonometric functions
- 9.
limit of real number sequence
- 10.
geometric sequence
- 11.
sequences
and series
Differential calculus
- 1.
concept of a limit
- 2.
limit rules of functions, improper limit
- 3.
continuous
- 4.
http://planetmath.org/LimitOfDisplaystyleFracsinXxAsXApproaches0limit of sine divided by angle at 0
- 5.
intermediate value theorem
- 6.
derivative
- 7.
derivatives of sine and cosine
- 8.
derivative of inverse function
- 9.
related rates
- 10.
minimum and maximum of functions (extrema)
- 11.
least and greatest value of function
- 12.
mean value theorem
- 13.
Rolle’s theorem
Integral calculus
- 1.
Riemann sum
- 2.
integral
- 3.
left hand rule
- 4.
right hand rule
- 5.
midpoint rule
- 6.
http://planetmath.org/CompositeTrapezoidalRuletrapezoid rule
- 7.
fundamental theorem of calculus
- 8.
integration techniques
Complex numbers
- 1.
complex numbers
- 2.
complex function
Applications (word problems)
- 1.
graphing of equations and inequalities
- 2.
counting and basic probability
- 3.
length, area, volume
- 4.
distance, rate, speed, velocity
- 5.
money, interest, compound interest