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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Tangent Segments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What's so special about tangents? Learners first explore how if a circle is tangent to both rays of an angle, then its center is on the angle bisector. They then complete a set of exercises designed to explore further properties and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building Big and Strong

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Middle and high schoolers explore the concepts of architectural rigidity. They analyze a variety of polygons, and explain why some shapes add more strength to structures than others. The PBS video, "Building Big," is utilized in this plan.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Logical Relationship of Postulates & Theorems

For Students 10th - 12th
In this postulates and theorems instructional activity, students explore a concept map containing information about angles and sides, alternate interior angles, and diagonals of a parallelogram.  They use the concept map to prove...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Polygons All Around Us!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore the concept of polygon properties. In this polygon properties lesson, students draw polygons with different numbers of sides such as pentagons, octagons, hexagons, etc. Pupils identify different geometric shapes in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tangram Perimeters

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to make figures out of tangram squares. In groups, they calculate the measurements they need and apply the Pythagorean Theorem. They complete a worksheet solving equations using the theorem and review their answers.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will demonstrate the use of CPCTC in triangle congruency proofs.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: g.co Reflections and Isosceles Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task has students link their intuitive notions of symmetries of a triangle with statements proving that said triangle is unmoved by applying certain rigid transformations. The mechanism through which students do this is via...
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Handout
Jim Loy

Jim Loy's Mathematics Page: Congruence of Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find explanations of the ways to prove triangles are congruent. There is a link for Congruence Of Triangles, Part II to find the proofs of some ways to prove congruence of triangles from other postulates (i.e. Assume SAS prove ASA).
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cpctc: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will demonstrate the use of CPCTC in triangle congruencey proofs. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "CPCTC."
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Proofs With Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore different ways of proving some theorems about lines and angles. Some transformations are used.
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Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Theorems and Postulates for Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here is a partial list of theorems, postulates, and properties.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cpctc

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart looks into the concept of CPCTC with triangles, using proofs. This flipchart has interactive parts, video, and voting.