Lesson Plan

Construct an Equilateral Triangle (part 2)

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Triangles, triangles, and more triangles! In this second installment of a 36-part series, your young mathematicians explore two increasingly challenging constructions, requiring them to develop a way to construct three triangles that share specific sides and a way to put together a regular hexagon.

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Instructional Ideas
  • Use this resource as an extension investigation
Classroom Considerations
  • The 36 installments are designed to be used in order with each lesson building on the previous ones
  • Class members should be proficient in constructing equilateral triangles
  • The constructions in the resource are considerably more difficult than in the previous lesson
Pros
  • Exit ticket and problem set drive learners to solidify their notions of how to use circles to draw segments of equal length
  • Material gets progressively more difficult as the modules advance
Cons
  • None