A guide to support parents as they work with their students in geometry and measurement word problems.

Students learn to explore relationships between units of measure and objects to be measured. They develop an understanding of length, area, and volume.

Complete the step by step lesson, sing karaoke, and test your knowledge of angle measures.

In this activity students explore the use of manipulatives to conduct simple geometry and measurement activities.

In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca breaks her friend's tabletop when she's practicing dance moves in his living room. She uses measurement and geometry to get a new piece of wood that will fit the table exactly. The accompanying...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to use similar triangles and proportions to find measurements indirectly. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find unknown measurements indirectly using the ratios and proportions of similar figures. Students examine guided notes, review guided...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use similar triangles and proportions to find measurements indirectly. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find angle measures using a protractor and the Angle Addition Postulate.

Middle schoolers will learn and reinforce skills for measuring perimeter and area of 2D shapes and measuring surface area and volume of 3D shapes.

Geometry is the study of how to use math to describe and investigate different points, lines and shapes. The way that a shape is described in geometry is with a formula, which is simply a mathematical way to calculate different...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use proportions to find unknown measures in similar figures and then apply these measures to indirect measurement.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize similarity and use similar figures to solve problems by using indirect measurement

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Finding and understanding the angle measures of quadrilaterals.

Students learn about trigonometry, geometry and measurements while participating in a hands-on interaction with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT technology. First they review fundamental geometrical and trigonometric concepts. Then, they estimate the...

Explore finding and measuring perimeter of figures.

This site has a few creative lesson plans on using the digital camera in a mathematics classroom. Includes geometry and measurement activities. (The link for the counting book does not work in archived version of site.)

Learn how to manipulate and measure composite shapes.

Explore and measure a variety of quadrilaterals.

Explore and measure a variety of triangles.

Explore the structure and measurement of polygons.

This site by Suzanne Alejandre offers lesson plans, activities and resources covering topics in algebra, geometry, data analysis, number & operations, and measurement. The contents of this site are aligned with the NCTM standards and...

A great resource where you can learn how to calculate the measures of the interior and exterior angles of any regular polygon with these tutorials. There are several practice pages for someone to try. The teacher resource page includes...

Juice boxes are so convenient, just poke the straw in and sip away. It might surprise you how much thought goes into the design and manufacturing of a juice box. Each manufacturer has carefully calculated how big each side should be to...