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Curated OER

SuperShapes, Part 1; "Tri"ing Triangles

For Teachers 5th - 6th
An outstanding lesson on triangles awaits your math scholars. Learners focus on the triangle, which is the strongest of all polygons. They see the role that triangles play in the design of buildings, and learn about triangle...
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MathMovesU

Practice: Measuring Angles and Using a Protractor and More!

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Four fabulous worksheets are included in this resource, all having to do with the measurement of angles. On the first, anglers will use a protractor to determine the degrees of 10 different angles. An arc is drawn on each. On the second,...
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Super Shapes Part 2 - Circles

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Through the use of Internet, video, and hands-on activities, youngsters learn the parts and characteristics of a circle. This fantastic lesson has some excellent website activities included in the plan. Your kids will have a much greater...
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The Circle's Measure

For Teachers 6th
Listen to the story "Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi" and solve the riddle and to save Sir Cumference from the knights.  Your students will love mixing an activity with story and will practice their measuring skills while completing...
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Texas Instruments

Drawing a Line Tangent to a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore lines tangent to a circle. In this math lesson, high schoolers manipulate circles and lines on a TI calculator. They draw a circle  and analyze perpendicular lines intersecting the circle in only one place. This activity works...
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Shot Put Arc

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners complete Part A: Dissecting a Circle. They generate their own chords within the circle. Students measure the various parts of the arc in the shot put pit. The first two measurements, the chord and distance from the midpoint of...
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MAP Practice

For Students 9th - 11th
In this geometry activity, students create circle, line and bar graphs using different comparisons of events. There are 24 questions with an answer key.
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Curated OER

Review Graphing Parabolas & Circles

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars review how to graph parabolas. They practice graphing two different parabolas using the vertex and table method. They solve problems related to graphing circles, determining the radius and the center.
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Geometric Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Connect geometric shapes to your learners' lives with this worksheet. In order to complete this worksheet, young scholars must discover examples of triangles, squares, and circles at school, at home, and outdoors and list them on a...
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Exploring Circles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore circles using a graphing calculator. For this circles lesson, students write the equation of a circle with a given center and radius length. Students find the most appropriate model for each combination of data they...
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Deriving the Formula For the Area of a Circle

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars derive the formula for the area of a circle. They form a rectangle by partitioning a circle using construction paper and scissors.
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Making an Angle Eater

For Students 3rd
Third graders create angle eaters where they use circles with cut outs to identify right, obtuse, and acute angles. Students complete 1 angle eater.
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Futures Channel

Folding Circles

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Students investigate properties of circles. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate between similarity and congruence as they observe polygons. They investigate properties of two and three dimensional shape.
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Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create geometric art in your classroom. Learners use a ruler to mark lines on their paper, they then trace a lid to create a series of circles. They color in each circle using two tones or colors to create an interesting visual pattern. 
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Curated OER

Attributes of Shapes Guided Lesson Explanation

For Students 1st
Triangles, circles, and rectangles are featured in a colorful, one-page worksheet that defines and illustrates these shapes. Read the explanations with your first graders and have them count the number of shapes in a given box. Since the...
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Finding Areas of Polygons and Circles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students find the areas for the shapes. They apply the appropriate formula for each shape that is drawn and in the word problems.
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Calculate Area Using Pi

For Students 7th - 9th
Geometers find the area of four circles given their circumferences. Circumference is presented in the form of "numeral (diameter) x pi"; the answer key shows solutions as  "numeral (radius squared) x pi," so computation is limited to...
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Small Angle Calculations

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students work with circles, angles and estimating angles in the night sky. In this circles and angles lesson, students practice measuring a degree using the circumference of a circle and apply the degree to determine a way to use their...
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Properties of Circles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the properties of circles. In this circles lesson, students read a word problem about circles. Students watch a video about the activity and then practice drawing the circle solution to the problem. Students watch another...
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Shapes Worksheet: Tracing Circles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Early learners practice tracing 7 different sized circles and then draw 5 circles on their own in the space provided. A good, basic activity for working on fine motor skills.
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Connecting Formulas Related to Geometric Figures

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify diagrams of quadrilaterals and circles by different names and classify the figures. They name the areas for each diagram and practice solving the formulas for each.
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Geometry Practice: Loci and Transformations

For Students 9th - 12th
This resource guides young geometers to create new polygons from others of equal area, compare an image to its reflection and find errors, conduct repeated reflections, map translations, and determine center of rotation. No solutions are...
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Circles

For Students 7th
In this circles worksheet, 7th graders identify and complete 6 different problems that include determining various parts of a circle. First, they identify and define each circle term listed on the left. Then, students color each term...
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Trace the Circles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this circles worksheet, students practice tracing 11 dotted and different sized circles on the worksheet. Students practice the skill of tracing dotted lines.