Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Heron's Formula
This activity allows students to find the area of a triangle using Heron's formula.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Location! Location! Location!
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to Voronoi diagrams, which split a plane into regions corresponding to distances to given points. The lesson is framed in the context of splitting a city into...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Volume of a Triangular Prism
A complete reference guide to finding the volume of a triangle prism. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Right Triangles Calculator
Use this calculator to find the unknown angles in a right triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem. Once you know the sides you can calculate the perimeter, semiperimeter, area, and the altitudes.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Polygons in the Coordinate Plane
The purpose of this task is for students to practice plotting points in the coordinate plane and finding the areas of polygons. This task assumes that students already understand how to find areas of polygons by decomposing them into...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G C, G Srt Setting Up Sprinklers
In this task, students must decide where to place sprinklers on a lawn so that the maximum area of the lawn will be watered. To solve it, they must find areas of sectors of circles and use trigonometric ratios to solve right triangles....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G C Mutually Tangent Circles
Three circles are mutually tangent. Students are asked to find the total area of the circles plus the area inside where they meet. Students will need to know how to calculate the area of a circle, a sector of a circle, and an equilateral...
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Shaded Square
A problem of finding the fraction of a square that is shaded given criterion. Students will have to use their mathematical reasoning and triangle solving skills to solve this area problem.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Exploring Polygons
For this lesson, students explore different polygons by drawing them, measuring angles, and manipulating interactive sketches to find the angle sum for any polygon. Students also explore the angle measures in regular polygons. Included...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Law of Cosines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines and uses the law of cosines to find the missing sides and angles of oblique triangles.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use the Pythagorean Theorem to find perimeter and area. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Midpoint
This MathWorld site offers a lesson on finding the midpoint of a line segment using a compass and finding the midpoint of the sides of a triangle. This site also has an interesting way of drawing two triangle with equal area by finding...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G C, G Srt Neglecting the Curvature of the Earth
Jerry and Ashley are trying to find out if it is possible to see the lowest point in the USA from the highest point in the USA. It turns out that the highest point in the United States, the peak of Mount Whitney, is only 85 miles from...
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The mathlab.com: Sophia's Tree of Mysteries
There are 10 questions hidden in the tree. Click around to find them. As you find each answer, use the decoder grid below to find its matching letter to determine the required password to enter the restricted area.