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It's All Just Similar to Me

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of similar figures. In this similar figures lesson, pupils calculate scale factors of similar triangles. They find missing sides of triangles, and measure angles using protractors and measure sides of...
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Curated OER

Triangle Wars

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore geometry by participating in a class card game. In this triangle lesson, students utilize playing cards with shapes on them which they group up and discard, similar to "Old Maid." Students complete a worksheet and answer...
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Similar Figures

For Students 7th - 9th
In this similar figures worksheet, students identify corresponding sides and corresponding angles of given polygons.  They identify similar figures.  This three-page worksheet contains 18 problems.
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Areas of Geometric Shapes with the Same Perimeter

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
A triangle, square, hexagon, and circle all have a perimeter of one unit. Eighth graders must attempt to find the area of each and arrange them in order from least to greatest areas. A terrific task for applying four different area...
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Curated OER

Congruent Trianges - Is This Enough Information?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders determine whether two triangles are congruent and provide an explanation to why they are not. They apply concepts of measurement of angles and collect evidence of congruent angles in the world.
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Curated OER

Three- and Two- Dimensional Geometry

For Students 7th
In this three- and two- dimensional geometry worksheet, 7th graders solve 12 various problems related to geometric shapes and measurement. They first use paper and a pencil to sketch the front, side, back, top and bottom views of each...
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Geometry of Triangles Using a Protractor

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use a protractor to measure angles and solve a problem involving distance. In this measuring angles with a protractor lesson plan, 7th graders calculate the distance of a line on a diagram by using a protractor to measure...
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Congruent Triangles - Is This Enough Information?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine congruence postulates and apply knowledge to triangles in the world around them.
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Dihedral Figures

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers perform transformations. In this web based lesson plan, learners explore dihedral figures. They use the web tools to translate, rotate, and reflect figures. Pupils identify lines of symmetry.
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101 Questions

Square Partitions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Challenge your classes while developing their problem-solving skills. A square is divided neatly into four equal triangles by its diagonals until one diagonal is moved from a vertex to the midpoint of one side. Now, scholars must devise...
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Exploratorium

Handy Measuring Ratio

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Your hand can be a handy tool for measurement. Young mathematicians learn how to estimate the height of objects by applying similarity. They find the horizontal distance from the object where spreading their outstretched fingers results...
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Transformations

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
In this transformations worksheet, pupils draw the transformations of the triangles and parallelograms in graphs. They complete four drawings.
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CCSS Math Activities

Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 7th Grade Math – Target E

For Teachers 7th Standards
How well do your classes understand scale? You'll certainly know after they answer the set of eight questions from an informative and helpful presentation. Questions include items from coordinate geometry, similar triangles, and scale...
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How Tall Is That Flag Pole?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine various triangles and discuss how similar triangles have sides that are proportional. They utilize an ancient Egyptian method to determine the height of a flagpole.
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Designing a Fort

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore the concept of right triangles. In this right triangle lesson, students construct a scale model of a tourist attraction similar to Fort Jefferson. Students research aerial photos of Fort Jefferson, then build their...
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Let the Matrix Do It

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars create a matrix of the vertices of a triangle and produce new matrices that dilate, translate, rotate, and reflect the original triangle. After multiplying each matrix by a new scale factor, they graph the new matrix and...
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Geometry Worksheet: Pythagoras' Theorem

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this Pythagorean Theorem activity, students use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the unlabeled side of the right triangle. There are 8 problems all together.
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Curated OER

Scaling Figures Two

For Students 5th - 8th
For this similar figures worksheet, students find the missing side of the larger figure when the smaller figure's sides are given. Students complete 4 problems.
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Curated OER

Symmetry and Geometric Shapes on Campus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Build on your learners' previous knowledge of geometric shapes and symmetrical figures. Then set them out to take photos of geometric shapes on campus. They assess whether the photos contain symmetry or not. 
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Curated OER

Applications, Proportions, and Problem Solving

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the problems involving proportions. They also compare the similar triangles.
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101 Questions

Snail's Pace

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Time doesn't fly when you're watching a snail cross a sidewalk. Combining the concepts of the Pythagorean Theorem and the distance, rate, and time formula, learners determine how long it takes a snail to go from one corner of a sidewalk...
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Introduction to Fractals: Geometric Fractals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study and observe the patterns made by the areas of the Sierpinski Triangle. Students use the computer to draw two or three iterations to discover the number patterns. Middle schoolers complete worksheets based on...
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Finding Slope of a Line from Graphs, Tables, and Ordered Pairs

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Middle schoolers explore the concept of slope in numerous ways and start to look at simple linear equations. They describe the slope in a variety of ways such as the steepness of a line, developing a ratio, using graphs, using similar...
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Discovery Education

Exploring Geometry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers construct a three-dimensional model of a city using both similar and congruent figures and geometric transformations. City must have at least ten buildings with each building labeled and may be constructed out of paper...

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