Curated OER
Identifying Lines of Symmetry
Students calculate the lines of symmetry using polygons. In this geometry instructional activity, students graph, compare and estimate using collected data. They identify different attributes to the polygons based on their sides.
Curated OER
Get the Turtle to the Pond
Students solve problems. In this math lesson, students write solutions using LOGO commands in order to help get the turtle to the pond.
Curated OER
Geometry Geopardy
Third graders participate in a game in order to review geometric concepts.
Curated OER
Exploring Arrangements of 2, 3, 4, and 5 Cubes
Students use problem solving skills to create various models of tricubes, tetracubes, and pentacubes. They classify the cubes into various groupings and identify them as mirror images, regular arrangements, and irregular arrangements....
Curated OER
Parallel-o-Home
High schoolers investigate the usage of parallel and perpendicular shapes in the real world. In this geometry lesson, students investigate shapes for properties that are related to the real world. They relate all the properties of shape...
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Plain Figures And Measuring Figures
Seventh graders investigate the mathematical concept of a sector. They apply the concept to an example problem and then move into a more complex application. They find the area of the side of a cone. This is done as students calculate...
Curated OER
Tangrams
Students construct the tangram pieces from a square paper by following directions to fold and cut. They make observations on the pieces formed and compare how they are related to each other. They explore patterns and shapes with the...
Curated OER
Exploring Arrangements of 2, 3, 4, and 5 Cubes
Students construct models of various tricubes, tetracubes, and pentacubes that are possible, classify n-cubes into different groupings, and draw these figures on isometric dot paper giving true perspective to what they visualize.
Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University: Parallel Lines and Similar and Congruent Triangles
This site defines eleven theorems relating to parallel lines and similar and congruent triangles. Links to the theorems and relevant term descriptions are provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generalizing Geometric Properties of Ratios in Similar Figures
Students will investigate patterns to make conjectures about geometric relationships and apply the definition of similarity, in terms of a dilation, to identify similar figures and their proportional sides and congruent corresponding...
Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University: Parallel Lines and Similar and Congruent Triangles
This site defines parallel lines, parallel lines cut by a transverse, and congruent triangles. It also contains links for related terms.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Similar Figures Discovery Activity
Students can use Cabri Jr. to discover two properties of similar triangles: corresponding angles are congruent and corresponding sides are proportional.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Similarity and Transformations
Given two polygons, try to map one onto the other using angle-preserving transformations, and determine whether they are similar. Transformations are done in "intuitive mode." Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity...
Other
Nearpod: Congruent Triangles & Similarity
In this instructional activity on congruent triangles, students explore how to use postulates to identify if triangles are congruent by SSS, SAS, ASA, and AAS.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Find Angles in Congruent Triangles
Given two triangles, determine whether they are congruent and use that to find missing angle measures. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 6.3 Aa Triangle Similarity
If two triangles are similar, it means that all corresponding angle pairs are congruent and all corresponding sides are proportional. However, in order to be sure that two triangles are similar, you do not necessarily need to have...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 6.7 Applications of Similar Triangles
Learn how similar triangles have congruent corresponding angles and proportional corresponding sides.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Aa Similarity (Intermediate)
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students how to identify whether or not two triangles are similar using AA Similarity.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Similarity
This learning tutorial describes the characteristics of similar figures and how to use scale factor and proportions to determine missing side lengths. The lesson includes PowerPoint presentations and videos demonstrating how to solve...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 6.5 Sss Triangle Similarity
Explore and understand two triangles that are similar.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 6.4 Sas Triangle Similarity
Explore and understand triangle similarity.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Investigate Triangles and Congruence
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family with Cabri Jr. to prove triangle congruence with SSA.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Ballooning Inside the Box
In this activity Using the USATODAY infograph, "Ballooning inside the box", students will explore geometric relationships using similar triangles. Identifying triangles with two pairs of congruent angles to explore similarity properties...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Copying an Angle
Explore relationships (including congruence and similarity) among classes of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, make and test conjectures about them, and solve problems involving them.