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Illustrative Mathematics

Are These Right?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Is that a right triangle or a wrong triangle? Young mathematicians look at eleven different shapes and use a measuring tool of their choice to determine which triangles have right angles. Consider cutting out sets of the shapes to...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Pythagorean Theorem for Solving Right Triangles: Solving the Triangle

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Observe the change in the trigonometric ratios as angles vary. An interactive provides the values of trigonometric ratios for both acute angles in a right triangle. Pupils create a right triangle to match given criteria and find the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Area of Right-Angled Triangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a trick to solving the area of a triangle, and it involves a skill your geometers have already mastered. Help them discover the connection between finding a rectangle's area and finding a right triangle's area as they solve for...
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Curated OER

Properties of Polygons, Parallel Sides, and Right Angles

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Have fun with shapes! Third graders read a set of instructions and circle the shape in the description. They work on recognizing parallel sides and right sides. Use this resource as homework after your geometry lesson.
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Virginia Department of Education

Special Right Triangles and Right Triangle Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Right triangles are so special! Use special right triangles to discover the trigonometric ratios. Pairs construct special right triangles and find the values of the ratios of the sides. In the process, they discover the ratios stay the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Left and Right Worksheet - Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
For this positions of shapes worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by coloring the 4 shapes according to directions.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Lengths of Sides in Isosceles Right Triangles: Paper Football

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Fuse sports and geometry by having your class create paper footballs—that are actually isosceles right triangles! Scholars use an interactive to create an isosceles right triangle to model a paper football. From the information in the...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Relationships of Sides in 30-60-90 Right Triangles: Truck on a Mountain Road

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Determine the change in elevation on a mountain road. Individuals use the interactive to simulate a truck driving up a mountain road with a 30-degree incline. They determine missing sides of a 30-60 right triangle to find horizontal and...
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Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Investigating Special Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Scholars first investigate relationships in the side lengths of 30°-60°-90° triangles and 45°-45°-90° triangles. This knowledge then helps them solve problems later in the lesson about special right triangles.
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Unit Plan
Radford University

Right Triangle Applications: Lessons 1 and 2

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Use right triangles for more than just mathematical problems. The first two lessons of a unit ask pupils determine distances between cities by using the Pythagorean Theorem and a map. To cement understanding, learners use trigonometric...
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Corbett Maths

Showing a Triangle Is Right Angled

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Determine whether it is right or not. Using the Pythagorean Theorem, the video shows how to determine whether a triangle is a right triangle. Pupils practice the skill in a few of the problems in the associated worksheets on the...
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Curated OER

You Can't Go Wrong with a Right Triangle 1

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Fourth and fifth graders study the Pythagorean Theorem and apply it to find the missing side of a right triangle.
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Curated OER

You Can't Go Wrong with a Right Triangle 2

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper graders use the properties of right angle trignonmetry to measure objects such as the school flagpole. They solve real world problems using these properties.
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Curated OER

Countdown Challenge: Right Angles

For Students 6th - 8th
In this right angle instructional activity, middle schoolers observe a map of the United States of America. They indicate all right angles on the map by using a right angle symbol. Students list the names of the states and identify the...
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Curated OER

Special Right Triangles

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this special right triangle worksheet, students use the trigonometric functions to determine angle measurement or the length of one side of a right triangle. This one-page worksheet contains 18 problems. Answers are provided at the...
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Curated OER

Special Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for missing angles, students evaluate right triangles and their properties.
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Curated OER

Squares, Rectangles, and Right Triangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Youngsters identify and draw polygons including squares, rectangles, and right triangles. In this polygons lesson plan, everyone draws these shapes that have right angles in their math journals.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Special Relationships Within Right Triangles—Dividing into Two Similar Sub-Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Why are right triangles so special? Pupils begin their study of right triangles by examining similar right triangles. Verifying through proofs, scholars recognize the three similar right triangles formed by drawing the altitude. Once...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Inscribing and Circumscribing Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers attempt an assessment task requiring them to find the radii of inscribed and circumscribed circles of a right triangle with given dimensions. They then evaluate provided sample responses to consider how to improve their...
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Mathematics Vision Project

Similarity and Right Triangle Trigonometry

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Starting with similar triangles and dilation factors, this unit quickly and thoroughly progresses into the world of right triangle features and trigonometric relationships. Presented in easy-to-attack modules with copious application...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Right Triangles Inscribed in Circles II

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
So many times the characteristics of triangles are presented as a vocabulary-type of activity, but in this activity they are key to unraveling a proof. A unique attack on proving that an inscribed angle that subtends a diameter must be a...
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Curated OER

Explore Right Angles

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate right angles. In this geometry lesson, students define the word "angle" and create a right angle finder from an index card. Students find right angles in their classroom. As an extension activity, students try to...
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Curated OER

Right Triangle Trigonometry: Evaluating Trigonometric Ratios

For Students 10th - 12th
In this right triangle trigonometry instructional activity, students use trigonometric ratios to determine the length of a missing side of a triangle or to find a specified angle measurement. This four-page instructional activity...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Right Triangle Trigonometry: Finding Missing Sides and Angles

For Students 9th - 11th
In this right triangle trigonometry worksheet, students find the measure of specified angles. Students determine the length of the missing side of a right triangle. This four-page worksheet contains 24 problems. Answers to the worksheet...

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