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...
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...
Other
Nearpod: Similar Figures & Proportionality
In this lesson plan on similar figures and proportionality, students explore how to identify if figures are similar by applying their knowledge of corresponding angles and sides.
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.
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: 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.
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...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Similarity
This site contains a lesson plan for high school age students. The objective is to discover the factor of proportionality in similar polygons and to relate this factor to the perimeters and areas of similar polygons.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Corresponding Parts: Lesson 5
This lesson will define the phrase corresponding parts (e.g. angles, sides, etc.). It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Corresponding Parts."
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: 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...