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Kinds of Triangles (Online Interactive)
In this triangles learning exercise, students analyze pictures of four triangles. For each triangle, students mark if it is acute, obtuse, or right.
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Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
This is an intriguing problem that brings together real-world data, technology, and mathematical problem solving. If visibility wasn't an issue, could you see from the highest point in the lower 48 states, Mt. Whitney, to the lowest...
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Triangle Congruence
Students use web applet to create congruent triangles. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate between congruent and similar. They create shapes online and drag those shapes around to create visuals of triangles.
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Human Geometry Book
Students investigate geometric shapes. In this geometry lesson, students read the book The Greedy Triangle and define the shapes mentioned in the book. Students make the shapes by using their bodies.
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Types of Triangles
Young scholars classify triangles by the length of their sides. In this geometry lesson, students use a white board to demonstrate the angles of various triangles. Young scholars construct an equilateral, isosceles, and a scalene triangle.
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Obtuse Triangles
Fourth graders explore obtuse triangles. In this geometry instructional activity, 4th graders make obtuse triangles with paper and scissors. They determine how to find the center of their triangle.
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Altitude Locator
Students use protractors, strings, and straws to construct a device used to determine the height of tall objects. In this applied geometry lesson, students use common objects to construct a tangent height guide. They use principles of...
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Roll It! Creating an Entrance Ramp
High schoolers explore the concept of triangles. In this triangles lesson, students are to propose a plan for a ramp at their school. High schoolers use the Pythagorean Theorem and trigonometry to determine the length,...
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Triangle Puzzler
Students are introduced to some basic concepts of geometry. They explain that the definition of a triangle is a figure with three sides, three angles, and three points. Triangles can be named by using three points in their correct sequence.
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Triangles
In this triangles worksheet, students identify 3 triangles by the length of their sides and 3 triangles according to their internal angles.
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Triangle Attributes and Measures
Seventh graders explore the concept of triangles. In this triangles activity, 7th graders sort triangles according to various attributes such as acute, obtuse, isosceles, or equilateral. Students find the area and perimeter of triangles.
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Equilateral Triangles
Learners examine the attribute of equilateral triangles. In this equilateral triangle lesson, students examine a number of paper triangles to determine how they are classified. They determine how triangles are depicted in Navajo rugs.
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Let's Explore the World of Triangles and Quadrilaterals!
Second graders explore the features of triangles and quadrilaterals. In this lesson on triangles and quadrilaterals, 2nd graders rotate with their group to five different activities all exploring a different aspect of geometry.
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Family Activity: Triangles and Quadrilaterals
In this triangles and quadrilaterals worksheet, middle schoolers solve 7 short answer problems. Students find objects around the house that are constructed from triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, squares, rectangles. Middle schoolers...
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Perimeter and Area
Use this perimeter and area instructional activity to have learners find the perimeter and area of shapes with right angles. They complete a total of nine problems.
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Geometry and Measurement Pre-Test
Use this comprehensive pre-instruction assessment tool to focus your teaching where your class needs it most. Multiple choice questions assess your budding geometers' conceptual and vocabulary knowledge, but they do not solve any...
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Identify triangles
Students explore triangles. In this geometry lesson, students will create note cards with pictorial depictions of right, acute,obtuse, scalene, isosceles, equilateral and equiangular triangles. Students will verbally describe each type...
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Isosceles Triangles
Students investigate triangles. In this shapes geometry lesson, students define and state the attributes for equilateral, scalene, and isosceles triangles. Students locate the prefix "tri" in a variety of words and make connections with...
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Similar Triangles
Ninth graders find the height of every day objects using techniques learned through postulates that allow triangles in a problem to be similar. They calculate the length of a missing side and solve proportions.
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Review Geometry - Week 8 (Triangles)
In this triangle worksheet, students use similar figures to find the length of one side of two similar triangles. They find the area of a triangle inscribed in a rectangle. This two-page worksheet contains eight problems.
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Triangle Inequality Theorem
Learners identify properties of triangles. In this geometry lesson, students create triangles using three different segments. They make conjectures and predictions.
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Similar Triangles - Applied Problems
Students differentiate between similar and congruent triangles. For this geometry lesson, students identify the angles of triangles using the similarity theorem. They apply concepts of triangles to the real world.
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Exterior and Interior Angles of Triangles
Tenth graders explore the exterior and interior angles of triangles. They use a theorem in order to prove a theorem about all polygons. Students use the theorem and its applications to find the angles of different types of triangles.
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Using Algebraic Equations in Geometry Problems
In this using algebraic equations in geometry problems worksheet, 6th graders write an equation to solve each addition problem about geometry, then find the solution.