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Math.com

Math.com: Building Blocks: Classifying Angles

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This geometry resource investigates types of angles. Definitions, detailed examples, and practice problems are included.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Angles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan introduces the concept of acute, obtuse and right angles. Also, as the lesson plan proceeds vertical, adjacent, alternate interior and alternate exterior angles are explored. Plenty of...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Angles

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The activity allows students to practice identifying different types of angles. An interactive activity and teacher resources are included.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Angles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity from Shodor Education Foundation will help you learn or review your angle vocabulary.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Math Guide Our Ships at Sea?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the history of logarithms and sailing by watching this animated video. [4:19]
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Eating Out

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students examine data and make graphs to represent the data. They interpret the data and answer questions. They also learn to calculate percentages and angle measures.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angle Sum in Triangles Proof: Rotation and a Parallel Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This investigation uses Cabri Jr. and a cleaver rotation of a triangle to "prove" that the angles in a triangle add up to 180. This could be used to reinforce triangles and paralled lines as well as introduce the concept of rotating an...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Parallel Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use Cabri Jr. to construct parallel lines and transversals. They will make conjectures about the angles that are formed.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Intersecting Lines and Vertical Angles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students visualize and explore the angles that are formed when two lines intersect. By measuring angles formed by intersecting lines, they enhance their understanding of vertical angles, supplementary angles, and a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Concurrent Lines, Medians, and Altitudes With Cabri Jr.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An introduction to concurrent lines, medians, and altitudes using Cabri Jr.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Central Versus Inscribed Angles in Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using Cabri Jr. to explore the connection between central and inscribed angles along with their arc measure.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Properties of Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
I use this activity in the beginning of the school year when introducing terminology such as angles, lines, segments, measures, perpendicular etc. The original material is from the SIMMS Integrated Mathematics using Technology, I have...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angles and Transversals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationships of angles formed when two parallel or non-parallel lines are cut by a transversal. This activity investigates the terms: Transversal, corresponding angles, alternate interior angles, alternate exterior...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angles in Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The student will use the Cabri Jr. APP to discover the relationship between inscribed and central angles in a circle.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cabri Jr. Inscribed and Central Angles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity uses Cabri Jr. to explore the relationship between inscribed and central angles subtended from the same arc of a circle.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Parallel Lines and a Transversal

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore relationships in various angles formed by 2 parallel lines and a transversal.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cabri Geometry Tour

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the Cabri software to mark points, draw lines, construct parallel and perpendicular lines, angles, bisectors, and triangles. They learn how to use the tool to measure angles.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What's the Angle?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students discover properties of interior and exterior angles of convex polygons using the TI-89 and Geometer's Sketchpad.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Navigating Dc by Angles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use a map of Washington, DC, to travel to/from different tourist locations using vertical angles, corresponding angles, alternate interior angles, alternate exterior angles, same-side interior angles, and linear pairs.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Extension: Parallel Lines and the Sum of the Angles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students construct a line parallel to the base of a triangle and measure the angles formed. They use the construction to prove that the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity Surveyor

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Surveyors describe land parcels with distance and angle measurements, often given as compass headings. Once the boundaries of the land parcel are described, the surveyor can calculate the area of the land. This activity uses Cabri Jr....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Classifying Angles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will create a variety of angles using the Geoboard APP. The teacher will use Screen Capture to display the angles created by the students and will lead a discussion on whether the angles are acute, right, or obtuse.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Two Intersecting Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will investigate the properties of angles formed by intersecting lines. They examine the definition of adjacent angles, supplementary angles, and vertical angles and learn about two important geometric theorems dealing with...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How High Is Big? Using an Astrolabe

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and measure the shadows of fixed objects throughout the school year to learn about how the seasonal change affects the sun's position in the sky.