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Texas Instruments: Altitude, Median, and Angle Bisector of a Triangle
In this activity, you will construct special segments of a triangle named altitudes, medians, and angle bisectors, Using their definitions. You will look at how an altitude, a median, and an angle bisector divide the area of a triangle....
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Texas Instruments: Investigating Segments in a Right Triangle
In this activity, students review definitions of terms such as right triangle, hypotenuse, midpoint, vertices, and equidistant. They also discover an important characteristic of the midpoint of the hypotenuse.
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Texas Instruments: Midsegment of a Triangle
Students explore the properties of triangles formed by connecting the midpoints of two sides of a triangle, and examine the relationship between the two triangles. They study the Triangle Midsegment theorem. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Cottage Water Problem
Students use the Cabri Geometry II Plus software to solve a geometry problem. They move the vertex point that is common to two right triangles along the base to find the smallest possible sum of the length of the hypotenuse.
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Texas Instruments: Triangle Inequality
In this activity the Students can use Cabri Jr. to investigate the Triangle Inequality Theorm and make conjectures about their findings.
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Texas Instruments: Looking for Mr. Right Triangle
Navigator Activity: This is a review of the right triangle in the coordinate plane. Given two lines (2 really nice ones) the students write the equation of the 3rd line to create a right triangle. They find the vertices of the triangle...
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Texas Instruments: Does Your Euler Line "Wiggle"?
The students will construct an Euler line and demonstrate it is an Euler line by "wiggling" the triangle to guarantee the correct centers remain on the line.
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Texas Instruments: Ratios in Right Triangles
The study of properties of right triangles is a major topic in mathematics. In this activity, you will investigate three common right triangle trigonometric ratios. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Triangles
This file contains questions related to triangles. The questions can be used to asses your students' understanding of this topic in geometry.
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Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Geometry: Investigate Proportionality
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family with Cabri Jr. to segment lengths in a triangle.
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Texas Instruments: Measuring Angles in a Triangle
In this activity, students learn about the sum of the angles in a triangle. They understand triangles and their interior angles.
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Texas Instruments: Triangle Midsegment Theorem
Students can use Cabri Jr. to discover that the midsegment of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half the length of the third side.
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Texas Instruments: Triangulation Problem
In this Computer Algebra System (CAS) activity, students use 'landscape' paper and fold the top left corner of the page so that it just touches the bottom of the page. They calculate the area of the triangle formed by the bottom left...
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Texas Instruments: Dynamic Geometry: Basic Constructions
Students use the Cabri Jr. application to draw triangles and construct perpendicular bisectors on the sides of a triangles. They study the properties of a triangle and understand how the measures of angles of a triangle is always 180...
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Texas Instruments: Right Triangles Are Cool Because of Pythag's Rule
In this activity, students use the Geoboard to determine the length of the sides of a right triangles. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Right Triangle Trig
This is a way to use the TI-Navigator to check for an understanding of sin, cos, and tan before you move onto word problems.
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Texas Instruments: The Orthocenter of a Triangle
Students understand that the orthocenter is the point of concurrence of the three altitudes of a triangle. They construct circumcircles and Feuerbach circles and determine the relationship between them.
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Texas Instruments: Is an Equilateral Triangle a Special Case of Isosceles?
The definition of isosceles triangle can determine whether an equilateral triangle is a special case of an isosceles triangle. Using the Cabri Jr. application, students can get a feel for which definition makes the most sense. Along the...
The Math League
The Math League: Area and Perimeter
This tutorial provides a brief introduction about what area is, then gives the formulas for area of a square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, triangle, and circle. Examples of each formula are provided.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Rectas Notables De Un Triangulo
In Spanish. Interactive activities dealing with the concept of angle bisector, median and altitude of a triangle. A description of the circumcenter and centroid are given along with a visual representation. [Requires Java.]
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Ck 12: Elem Math: Counting Rectangle,s Squares, Circles, and Triangles in Sets
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video displays a set of figures and reviews triangles by number of sides. Then all of the triangles out of the set of figures are chosen. The video is followed...
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Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
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The Timss Mathematics Segment: Geometry
This site explores the area of congruent triangles and how it is a difficult area to understand.
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Classics for Kids: Musical Instruments
An A-to-Z directory of all the instruments and tools of the orchestra. Each entry includes a description, a picture, and a sound sample.