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Tessel Your Way to Nagano!: Olympics, Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Design, Geometry, Math, M.C. Escher, Tessellations
Learners create Post-It note fundamental regions to tesselate. They make tesselations using computer software or websites. They create a jacket design with tesselation and determine the cost of production.
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Isosceles Triangle Theorem
In this geometry worksheet, students differentiate between regular triangles and isosceles triangles. They apply the converse theorem and the vertex angle. There are eleven questions with an answer key.
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Sketching Spheres
Students investigate spheres through sketches. In this geometry lesson, students sketch two and three dimensional shapes creating nets. They find and differentiate between the nets for prisms, pyramids, cones, cylinders and spheres.
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Have You Got the Angle?: Pre Test
In this angles activity, students complete multiple choice questions about the shape and number of angles. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Drawing Lines of Symmetry
Third graders explore the concept of symmetry using geometric shapes, capital letters and various other shapes. They fold shapes to show symmetry, draw lines of symmetry and create symmetrical designs.
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Faces of a Cube
Young scholars identify and correctly name three-dimensional solids; cones, spheres, and cubes. In this three-dimensional figures lesson, students build a cube by matching colored square faces to a correct word. Young...
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Creating Polygons
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons activity, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
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Area, Perimeter and Rations Using Pentominoes
Learners of all ages investigate area and perimeter through pentominoes. In this geometry lesson, students calculate the are and perimeter of different geometric shapes and describe the properties of similar and congruent shapes. This...
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Area of Tangram Pieces
Mathematicians calculate the area of a tangram piece without using formulas. They use a geometry journal to record activities during this instructional activity. They make a set of tangrams and use them to...
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Angles Activities
A series of geometry worksheets have mathematicians constructing, dissecting, overlapping, and measuring as they analyze angles in various contexts. Learners use symmetry and reflections in a compass rose to write instructions on...
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Assessment For The California Mathematics Standards Grade 6
Test your scholars' knowledge of a multitude of concepts with an assessment aligned to the California math standards. Using the exam, class members show what they know about the four operations, positive and negative numbers, statistics...
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Intro to Geometry
Seventh graders identify a polygon and classify them using congruent sides and number of edges and vertices. Students transform two dimensional objects into three dimensional objects.
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Reflections
Fifth graders create a reflection of a poygon using a Mira. They discover that a line connecting a vertiex of a polygon and the corresponding vertex of its reflection is perpendicular to the line of reflection. Students create a glide...
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Exploring Tessellations
Fifth graders examine how to make tessellations. In this tessellation lesson, 5th graders review the meaning of the word "polygon" while the teacher shows them various examples. They practice making tiling patterns or tessellation's with...
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Geometry Practice Exam
In this reflections and rotations worksheet, students reflect and rotate lines in graphs and draw lines of symmetry through patterns. Students complete 24 problems.
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Tantalizing Tessellations Lesson III: Creating a Slide Translation
Students explore tessellations and the artwork of M.C. Escher. They view and discuss a video about M.C. Escher, create a slide template out of cardboard, and create a poster with their tessellation pattern.
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Measuring Angles & Segments
Students view a PowerPoint for a warm-up lesson. They practice measuring around the classroom, measuring such things as the length and width of a desk, pencil, door, and book. Students use a website to practice measuring angles.
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Area
In this area worksheet, students solve and complete 20 different problems that include the measurement of various figures. First, they determine the area of each of the triangles, parallelograms and trapezoids. Then, students determine...
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Interior and Exterior Angles of Polygons
For this angles of polygons worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 18 different problems that include determining various interior and exterior angles. First, they determine the measure of various angles described in the first half...
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Properties of Quadrilaterals
In this properties of quadrilaterals activity, students use the properties of quadrilaterals to find the perimeter, angle measurement or length of a missing side of a given polygon. Examples and explanations of the properties are...
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Geometric Word Problems
In this geometric figures worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 11 different word problems. First, they find the area of a regular octagon with a given side. Then, students find the area of each shaded region. They also find the...
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Cylinder Volume Lesson Plan
Tenth graders define the formula for cylinders and use it to solve real world problems. In this geometry lesson plan, pupils differentiate between area, perimeters, 2D shapes, 3D shapes, and volume of prisms, cylinders and spheres. They...
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Polygons Defined
Fourth graders explore polygons. In this polygon instructional activity, 4th graders sort polygons according to their properties. Students discover the connection between polygons and the Greek language.
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Color Me Square
Second graders identify and describe basic geometric solids. Working as a class, 2nd graders describe geometric solids using the proper vocabulary and counting faces, bases, corners, and edges. In pairs, students use a computer drawing...