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- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students gain an appreciation for mandalas in many cultures. Compare and contrast designs from many cultures. They see geometric design in mandalas and become aware of symmetrical balance and radial balance. They create a mandala design. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 10th
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Students examine how Islamic artists represented their beliefs in logic and order through the geometric patterns in their art works. They analyze star patterns in Middle Eastern designs, and create geometric patterns using geometric shapes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 11th
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Students explore geometric means. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students identify and describe different kinds of geometric solids. They find the volume and surface area of different geometric solids. Students, working in groups, create a geometric solid out of cardboard, tin foil, and duct tape. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore sequences. They discuss the difference between an arithmetic sequence and a geometric pattern. Students participate in workstation activities where they determine arithmetic or geometric patterns and predict the sequence. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students investigate some concepts associated with geometric shapes. They study the bisector segment and the perpendicular line to a given line. Students conduct analysis with the goal of deepening observation and deduction skills. This is all done with careful consideration of the structure of geometric figures. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students become proficient using the Geometer's Sketchpad. They should be familiar with the Construct Menu. Students are taught the algebraic definitions of the Arithmetic Mean=(a+b)/2 and the Geometric Mean=square root of (a*b). Full Review »
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- 2nd - 8th
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Students create an overlapping shape design. They trace a variety of different geometric shape templates, as well as, geometric shaped objects. They create color contrast by coloring the space behind and between their overlapping shapes with black. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students compare and contrast an arithmetic series and a geometric series through the construction of arithmetic and geometric means. They observe the computation method and receive step by step instruction of the geometric mean. Students may compose their own series and give it a visual representation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students find common ratios of geometric sequences on a spreadsheet. Using this data they create scatter plots of the sequences to determine how each curve is related to the value of the common ratio. Students then generate geometric sequences on a spreadsheet and develop a formula to find any term of the sequence. Full Review »
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