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Geometry Unit 9: Area of Polygons
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Geometry Unit 9: Area of Polygons

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Six lessons make up the Geometry Unit 9: Area of Polygons unit module. Pupils review the formulas for finding the area of parallelograms and triangles. They apply previous learning of trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to...
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Balanced Assessment: Advanced High School Math Packet
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Balanced Assessment: Advanced High School Math Packet

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Nineteen resources make up the Balanced Assessment: Advanced High School Math Packet designed to test learners' knowledge in Algebra II, Geometry, and Pre-Calculus classes. To demonstrate their understanding of concepts related to these...
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Geometry Unit 5: Quadrilaterals and Polygons
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Geometry Unit 5: Quadrilaterals and Polygons

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
One's knowledge of angles should measure up to expectations. Scholars watch a video to learn about angles in polygons. They first see how to partition a polygon into triangles to find the sum of the interior angle measures. They then...
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Balanced Assessment: Exemplar High School Packet
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Balanced Assessment: Exemplar High School Packet

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Exemplar High School Balanced Packet is a collection of 19 assessment tasks designed to test scholars’ knowledge of Algebra 1 concepts. Learners create graphs that represent how things change over time, build functions to model...
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STEM Ed Hub: Design Resources
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STEM Ed Hub: Design Resources

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Engineering design-based activities make learning science fun. Young engineers design dams, lifeguard chairs, musical instruments, candy bags, and much more. They also use measurement skills to solve the mystery of the missing pin. Each...
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TeachEngineering: Earthquakes Living Lab
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TeachEngineering: Earthquakes Living Lab

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th Standards
Seven activities make up the TeachEngineering: Earthquakes Living Lab Collection. Activities designed for grades K-8 include “Geology and the 1906 San Francisco Quake,” “Designing for Disaster,” and “The Theory of Plate Tectonics.”...
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Flipped Math: Geometry
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Flipped Math: Geometry

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Imagine taking a complete geometry course remotely! Eleven units make up the My Geometry course. Each unit follows the Flipped-Mastery cycle of learning, divided into two semesters. Pupils watch and take notes on a video that details the...
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Common Core Math: 3rd Grade
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Common Core Math: 3rd Grade

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Looking for all things third grade Common Core math? Here is the collection you've been waiting for! Third grade math curriculum is rigorous and opens up the doors to bigger algebra concepts that learners will use their entire lives....
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High School Balanced Packet 1 Assessment Tasks
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High School Balanced Packet 1 Assessment Tasks

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Are you looking for assessment tasks for Algebra 1, Algebra 2, or geometry? Check out this collection of 20 assessment tasks designed for high schoolers. Problems are presented with an open-ended format allowing students to use multiple...
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Balanced Assessment: Basic High School Packet
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Balanced Assessment: Basic High School Packet

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Seventeen short assessments are designed to test scholars’ knowledge of basic Algebra 1 concepts. Pupils determine the houses that are a given maximum distance from a school, complete charts to show equivalent scale factors, and...
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Math Antics Geometry Video Lessons
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Math Antics Geometry Video Lessons

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
The point of this collection of 12 videos is to introduce learners to three basic parts of geometry—points, lines, and planes. The presenter provides definitions, shows how to classify shapes, provides examples, and shows how to use...
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Mission to Mars
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Mission to Mars

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Martians beware! Earthlings are on the way! A 13-resource collection prepares future astronauts for space travel by studying interesting facts about the Red Planet, the history of Martian exploration, and the development of robotics....
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Study Jams! Area of a Triangle Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Area of a Triangle

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Even though there is a wide variety of different triangles in the world, knowing a single equation allows us to find the area of each and every one of them. Follow along with this step-by-step presentation as Zoe clearly models how to...
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Area and Perimeter Assessment
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Area and Perimeter

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Get third graders excited to work find area and perimeter of unit squares, rectangles, and irregular shapes. A 36-page packet comes with task cards, graphic organizers, practice worksheets, printables with squares, exit tickets, and word...
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Is There Mystery in Measurement? Lesson Plan
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Is There Mystery in Measurement?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Investigate perimeter and area of polygons! In this measurement instructional activity, learners use index cards to create rectangles and trace their hand to estimate its area and perimeter.
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Teach Surface Area and Volume in the Most Engaging Way! Lesson Planet Article
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Teach Surface Area and Volume in the Most Engaging Way!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Build a Zarcon-proof home as a math activity that will provide tremendous advantages for engagement, for differentiation, and for mastery of concepts. This activity focuses specifically on surface area and volume using mathematical...
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Shape Investigation: Area and Perimeter Worksheet
Mathwire

Shape Investigation: Area and Perimeter

For Students 2nd - 5th
Does a shape's perimeter always match its area? Learners approach this and other claims in this shape investigation worksheet. Using blank grids, they draw various shapes based on required perimeter and area measurements, labelling the...
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Introducing Measurements in the Laboratory Lesson Plan
Santa Monica College

Introducing Measurements in the Laboratory

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
We use basic units of measurement to break down things and communicate clearly. The first activity in an 11-part series teaches the proper way to measure various items. It starts simply with measuring the dimensions and areas of...
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Area and Perimeter Activities Lesson Planet Article
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Area and Perimeter Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Read this article before you begin teaching geometry! It gives teachers some insight into the world of teaching geometry to young learners, and four area and perimeter lessons are attached. 
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Measurement: Finding Areas of Rectangles Lesson Plan
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Measurement: Finding Areas of Rectangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Gardening geometers construct the formula for the area of a rectangle by viewing a video revolving around two young people, their lawn mowing business, and their need to charge by the square meter. A relevant real-life application lesson!
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How To Measure Area Lesson Plan
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How To Measure Area

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Geometers learn how to measure the area in square units. They use the floor in the classroom as a visual to measure a square foot area. They use classmates to fill the space and expand the measured area square foot by square foot until...
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Triangle Area Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Triangle Area

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
While the lesson focuses on right triangles, this activity offers a great way to practice the area of all triangles through an interactive webpage. The activity begins with the class taking a square paper and cutting in in half; can they...
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Frame Yourself: Area and Perimeter Lesson Plan
PBS

Frame Yourself: Area and Perimeter

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Elementary schoolers are arranged in pairs and view the video Math Works: Measurement: The Difference Between Perimeter and Area. They discuss any prior knowledge they have of the term perimeter and then brainstorm together what the...
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Area of Right-Angled Triangles Worksheet
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Area of Right-Angled Triangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a trick to solving the area of a triangle, and it involves a skill your geometers have already mastered. Help them discover the connection between finding a rectangle's area and finding a right triangle's area as they solve for...
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