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The Right Number of Elephants

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you tell if a number of items is reasonable? Combine math and language arts with a fun lesson based on Jeff Shepard's The Right Number of Elephants. After reading the book, kids discuss amounts of other items and create minibooks...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Special Triangle Ratios: Special Right Triangle Ratios

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Go from one side length to any other side length with special right triangles. Individuals use the interactive to investigate the ratio of sides in 45-45 and 30-60 right triangles. Scholars make generalizations about the types of special...
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Instructional Video7:06
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Flipped Math

Unit 7 Review: Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
It is all right to spend some time with a review. After watching a short review video covering the materials from the unit, pupils work through 23 review problems. Scholars work on problems involving the Pythagorean Theorem and its...
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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Dilations Using Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Don't argue with a triangle that has a 90-degree angle. It's always right. Scholars first use right triangles to help draw dilations of points. They continue the instructional activity by applying this skill to draw dilations of polygons.
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Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Module 4: Similarity and Right Triangle Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Right you are to use a great resource. Starting with a lesson on dilations, scholars learn about similarity transformations and similar triangles. They use the knowledge to develop an understanding of right triangle trigonometry in later...
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Instructional Video20:12
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Flipped Math

Special Right Triangles I

For Students 9th - 12th
Introduce a special relationship with right triangles. Learners discover the ratio of the sides in a 30-60-90 triangle. After watching several examples and seeing two different methods, pupils find unknown sides in triangles. Scholars...
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Instructional Video10:02
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Flipped Math

Special Right Triangles II

For Students 9th - 12th
Show students that right triangles are radical. Learners see how the lengths of the sides of a 45-45-90 triangle relate. Using that relationship, pupils observe how to find any of the lengths given one side of a triangle. They go on to...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Right Triangles, Bearings, and Other Applications: Sailing Race

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Help your class get their bearings when it comes to right triangles. Pupils determine distances traveled or components given the bearing of a sailboat using an interactive. The scholars develop a sense of finding the bearings of a given...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Distance Formula: Right Triangles

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Go the distance with a far out resource. Individuals use an interactive to create right triangles on a coordinate plane to help find distance between two points. Challenge questions aid them in developing the distance formula.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Left and Right Worksheet - Pairs of Shapes

For Students K - 1st
In this position of objects learning exercise, students practice recognizing left and right by following the coloring directions for the items in each of 6 boxes.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Left and Right Worksheet - Colored Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
In this positions of objects worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by circling the shapes according to the directions for 6 exercises.
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Worksheet
Savvas Learning

Colorful Triangles

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Learners examine a figure made up of different types of triangles and then determine whether each triangle is right, acute, or obtuse. Next, they color each type of triangle a different color. Finally, pupils answer three fill in the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Prove the Pythagorean Theorem Using Similarity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Amaze your classes with the ability to find side lengths of triangles immediately — they'll all want to know your trick! Learners use the Pythagorean Theorem and special right triangle relationships to find missing side lengths.
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Curated OER

Investigating Segments in a Right Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers explore the concept of right triangles as they construct a right triangle using Cabri Jr. Learners find the midpoint of the hypotenuse and construct a line from the midpoint to the vertex of the right angle. They then...
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Curated OER

Trigonometric Functions of Acute Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students derive the six trigonometric functions. In this trigonometry lesson, students show their understanding of trigonometric functions as they relate the right triangles. They find the missing angles and side use trig ratios of sine,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
For this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve 10 different problems that include various right triangles. First, they find the value of a base given its hypotenuse. Then, students determine an angle given the perimeter and...
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Curated OER

Ratios in Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners calculate the sides of right triangles in this trigonometric ratios instructional activity. They use Cabri Jr. software and TI-83 or TI-84 calculators to find the side lengths and their ratios to each other for various...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles instructional activity, 10th graders solve and complete 12 various types of problems. First, they solve for x given each of the right triangles shown. Then, students determine the length of the shorter diagonal...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

30-60-90 Right Triangles in Cabri Jr.

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young mathematicians draw and label right triangles using Cabri Jr. technology. They create other special right triangles and identify the length of the hypotenuse and each leg. Students explore the ratios to determine how the hypotenuse...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Area of Right Triangles

For Students 8th - 10th
In this are of right triangles worksheet, students read graphs and explore congruent triangles.  They find the area of rectangles and of right triangles.  This one-page worksheet contains explanations, instructions, and 8 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 14 various types of problems. First, they find the perimeter of the isosceles trapezoid shown. Then, students find the measures of each marked side of a right triangle....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 5 different types of problems. First, they solve each of the right triangles shown and express each answer correct to two decimal places. Then students find the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Right Triangle Trigonometry

For Students 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders use right triangle trigonometry to find the missing angle measure.  The two page worksheet contains fourteen problems.  Answers are provided. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Finding Angles in Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders use right triangle trigonometry to solve application problems in which they find the measure of the missing angle in a right triangle.  The two page worksheet contains five free response...

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