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Exploring Characteristics of Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students draw triangles and explore the classification of each using the measures of interior angles and lengths of sides. They investigate the sum of the interior angles of various triangles and conjecture and prove the theorem: The...
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Up For Change?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore similar objects. They participate in a series of hands-on, multimedia and online activities to examine how the edge length affects the angle measures, perimeters and areas of similar regular polygons. Students find the...
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Triangle Inequality Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers investigate the relationship between angle measures and sides of a triangle and the relationships among the three sides of a triangle. The use of technology (Cabri, Jr.) allows learners to make and test conjectures as they...
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Indirect Measurement with Similar Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use similar triangles to find missing heights.  In this using similar triangles to find missing heights instructional activity, students use proportions to find the heights of missing side lengths.  Students find the...
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Scaling Down the Pyramids

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct three-dimensional models of the three pyramids at Giza. They research the building of the pyramids and record the height, base and angle measurements of each pyramid. They create a file of facts regarding the pyramids.
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Exploring Angle Pair Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate the relationship between angles of triangles. In this geometry lesson, students identify properties of right and non-right triangles. They differentiate between vertical and supplementary angles.
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South Caro-angular

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers classify and measure angles.  In this angular lesson, students measure, contruct, and classify angles.  They identify angles as acute, right, obtuse, and straight. 
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Whatcha Gunna Do When the Hulkster's Measuring Too??

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners measure using tools they have made. In this algebra lesson, students measure the height and distance using non-traditional measuring methods. They apply their findings to algebra and trigonometry properties of measurements.
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Angles and Parallel Lines

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders draw parallel and intersecting lines to observe and examine the characteristics of alternate interior angles, vertical angles, corresponding angles, and supplementary angles. Through observation, they discover the...
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The Trig to Soccer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze angles applied to a penalty kick in a soccer game. Based on dimensions of the goal, and the penalty area, students determine where the better chance of scoring lies.
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Get the Turtle to the Pond

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students estimate length and angle measure. They are asked to enter a sequence of LOGO commands to help the turtle get to the pond. Students write their own solutions using LOGO commands and input them into the computer.
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Incredibly Useful Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Start the exploration of trigonometry off right! Pupils build on their understanding of similarity in this lesson plan that introduces the three trigonometric ratios. They first learn to identify opposite and adjacent...
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Congruent and Similar Polygons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What's similar about congruent and similar polygons? Young mathematicians first measure the side lengths and angles of given figures. They use these measurements to determine relationships between side lengths and angles of congruent and...
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Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Facilitate creativity in your math class as individuals learn the definition of a geometric reflection and correctly construct a model, as well as its reflected image. They use a perpendicular bisector and circles to elaborate on...
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Why Does ASA Work?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Your geometry learners explore Angle-Side-Angle congruence in this collaborative task. The sum of the interior angles of all triangles being one hundred eighty degrees, is the key learners will discover as they explain their reasoning...
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Geometry Regents Questions: Isosceles Triangle Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this isosceles triangle worksheet, students solve 19 multiple choice and short answer problems.  Students use the isosceles triangle theorem to determine unknown angle measures.
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The North (Wall) Star

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars engage in a lesson which shows them that celestial navigation is the art and science of finding one's geographic position by means of astronomical observations, particularly by measuring altitudes of celestial objects -...
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Scale Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Are you searching for a purpose for geometric constructions? Use an engaging approach to explore dilations. Scholars create dilations using a construction method of their choice. As they build their constructed dilation, they...
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Trajectory Perplexity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate measuring angles correctly through projectiles. In this geometry lesson, students launch a projectile to investigate the importance of how to measure an angle correctly and to explore trajectory. They collect...
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Properties of Parallelograms

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers discover properties of parallelograms as they construct a parallelogram using Cabri Jr. They will measure angles and side lengths of their construction and determine the relationship between the diagonals of a...
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Angle Pairs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice identifying right, vertical, and adjacent angles using a Smartboard. They then determine measurements of all of the angles when only one measurement is given.
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Arc Measurement Based on The Measurement of a Central Angle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students define keywords that are important to solve problems. In this geometry instructional activity, students find the arc length and angle of a circle. They convert between radians and degrees.
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Triangle Exterior Angles Theorem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify the measure of missing exterior angles. In this geometry lesson,students define and apply the exterior angle theorem to solve problems. They use Cabri software to create different angles and make investigations.
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Interior and Exterior Angles of Polygons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify interior and exterior angles of polygons. In this geometry lesson, students add interior and exterior angles of polygons. They use angle theorems to solve the problems.