TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Parallel and Intersecting Lines: A Collision Course?
Students act as civil engineers developing safe railways as a way to strengthen their understanding of parallel and intersecting lines. Using pieces of yarn to visually represent line segments, students lay down "train tracks" on a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Intersecting Lines and Planes
In these problems, students are asked to find: point of intersection of two lines; coefficients that make two lines parallel; intersection of diagonals of a quadrilateral; and the point of intersection of three planes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Finding the Intersection
In this Cyberchase video, Inez and Digit identify the location of the transformatron using their knowledge of parallel and intersecting lines.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifying types of lines as parallel lines, perpendicular lines or intersecting lines.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces middle schoolers to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Intersecting and Parallel Lines
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify intersecting and parallel lines.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify intersecting, parallel and perpendicular lines in a plane
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Points and Lines
A complete reference guide to points, lines, and planes. It provides definitions and interactive activities that enhance further explanation.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Discovering Lines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines Parallel, Intersecting, and Perpendicular lines. It also provides opportunities to practice working with Parallel, Intersecting and Perpendicular Lines!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Two Points Determine a Line
In this video segment [2:10] from Cyberchase, Digit must make a straight line between the two points and then follow the path created.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines, Transversals and Angles
This activity allows students to: 1. Identify the pairs of angles formed when a transversal intersects two lines.: 2. Measure angles Using Cabri Jr. 3. Identify relationships between pairs of angles when a transversal intersects parallel...
Other
Git: What Is the Slope Intercept Form of a Line?
Not only does this site show what the slope-intercept form is, but it helps you find the slope and the intercept of a line. There is also additional information on parallel lines, parametric form, and the distance between two points.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Brush up on your math skills relating to parallel and perpendicular lines then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Parallel Lines
A definition for parallel lines in two-dimensional and three-dimensional Euclidean space. The site also gives reference to skew lines and explains the difference between skew and parallel lines in three-dimensional space.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Blast Off With Geometry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about polygons, angles, parallel, intersecting and perpendicular lines as you journey into space. Included is an activote quiz.
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Rectilinear Shapes
Find the gradient, equations and intersections of medians, altitudes and perpendicular bisectors using our knowledge of the mid-point as well as parallel and perpendicular lines.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Two Sightings, Different Information
Jackie and Matt are looking at the same object along two different lines, in this video segment from Cyberchase.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Corresponding Angles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students identify corresponding angles formed when a line intersects two other lines. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Corresponding Angles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students identify corresponding angles formed when a line intersects two other lines. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Corresponding Angles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students about corresponding angles, and how to use them to determine whether or not lines are parallel. Students examine guided notes, review...
Other
New York State Education Department: Eighth Grade Math, Book One (2006) [Pdf]
Part one of three; The March 2006 8th grade Math test from the State of New York. The test is 27 multiple choice questions dealing with topics such as algebra (translating into algebraic terms, simplifying expressions, evaluating...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: What Is a Locus?
This site defines what a locus is and offers links to five locus theorems. Walks you through the six "Steps to solving a locus problem."
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Compound Locus
Loci are applied to word problems in this online tutorial. Practice problems are included. The teacher resource page supplies practical problems.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: The Basic Locus Theorems
A wealth of resources for teachers introducing locus theorems to students. Lessons cover simple definitions, provide examples and diagrams, and offer connections to real-life situations. Practice exercises offer students online quizzes...