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Math Learning Center: Virtual Geoboard

For Students 3rd - 5th
A geoboard that can be adapted for different grade levels. Choose from three types of geoboard and eight different elastic colors. Shapes can be duplicated, rotated, flipped, and filled in. There are also drawing tools as well as a...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Geoboard Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Math Forum provides a set of links to sites that are related to geoboard activities. There are several great links to lessons using geoboards. The links provide insight into how to use them, including how to perform various measurements...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Using Geoboards in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
A thorough look at the extensive uses of geoboards in the classroom. Links are listed which give introductory information on geoboards - for teachers new to using them. Then, lesson plans are provided for using geoboards in teaching...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Virtual Geoboard

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this virtual geoboard to explore the attributes of various polygons. This would work well on an interactive whiteboard.
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Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot: Geoboard

For Students 4th - 6th
Students can use the interactive geoboard to create different types of quadrilaterals and investigate the properties of quadrilaterals. Requires Java. The geoboard can also be downloaded for offline use.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Isosceles Triangles on the Geoboard [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will learn about isosceles triangles. Materials needed include circular geoboards, rubber bands, circular geoboard paper and rulers.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: How to Use the Geoboard

For Students 9th - 10th
Four worksheets are linked which deal with area and perimeter of shapes constructed on the Geoboard. Additionally, a link is given to an online Geoboard so students may play with the model on their own.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Geoboard and Area

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students find areas of figures which are displayed on a grid. They also use the Geoboard application to find areas of figures they draw.
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Hidden Irrationals (Geoboard Lesson)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides a lesson on finding possible irrational numbers using a geoboard.
Unit Plan
University of Waterloo (Canada)

Math Frog: Geoboard

For Students 3rd - 5th
Warm up and exercises using a geoboard.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Geoboard App

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students use the Geoboard App to measure arcs, line segments, area, and perimeter, as well as rotate, reflect, and translate objects.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Symmetry on the Geoboard [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
An activity for students to work with symmetry on a geoboard. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, and geoboard recording paper.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Geoboard Line Segments [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 4th
Students are to find different ways to make two line segments that touch seven pins. Materials needed include geoboards, rubber bands, geoboard paper and rulers.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Equal Parts on the Geoboard [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 3rd
An activity for a geoboard. You will need the following materials: geoboards, rubberbands, geoboard paper and rulers.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Right Triangles on the Geoboard [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are to work with right triangles on a geoboard. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, geoboardpaper and rulers
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Geoboards [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An activity dealing with making a polygon and getting their coordinates. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, coordinate grid paper and rulers.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Geometry and the Geoboard

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This site is a lesson plan for using a geoboard in a sixth grade geometry class. The lesson serves as an introduction to the geoboard and its uses in geometry. Some topics the lesson covers include helping to visualize shapes and and...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Making Shapes on Geoboard

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the lines (rubber bands) to make a shape modeled by the teacher using a Geoboard.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Geoboards

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Geoboards bring challenge into the classroom as the student uses methods to measure length, area, and perimeters of polygons.
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Cut the Knot

Cut the Knot! Pick's Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains Pick's Theorem and contains an interactive geoboard and activity to help understand the theorem.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Enrichment Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Problem solving skills are demonstrated for these activities that incorporate geoboards, base ten sticks, and napier rods into the mathematics curriculum.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Walking the Fence Line

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the Geoboard to determine the perimeter of polygons. They learn to picture square roots visually as the side length of a square.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Quadrilateral Criteria [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are to make quadrilateral on a geoboard that meet a given criteria.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Transformations on a Pegboard

For Students 3rd - 5th
This one page website can expand your logic, Motion Geometry and pattern recognition knowledge. The solution is available to double check your answers.

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