Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Parallel and Intersecting Lines
This activity provides an opportunity for students to build an understanding of parallel and intersecting lines.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Parallel and Intersecting Lines: A Collision Course?
Students act as civil engineers developing safe railways as a way to strengthen their understanding of parallel and intersecting lines. Using pieces of yarn to visually represent line segments, students lay down "train tracks" on a...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Intersecting Lines and Planes
In these problems, students are asked to find: point of intersection of two lines; coefficients that make two lines parallel; intersection of diagonals of a quadrilateral; and the point of intersection of three planes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Finding the Intersection
In this Cyberchase video, Inez and Digit identify the location of the transformatron using their knowledge of parallel and intersecting lines.
Cuemath
Cuemath: Lines
Learn all about lines. This lesson targets what is a line and the different types. Check-out the interactive simulations to know more about the lesson and try your hand at solving a few interesting practice questions at the end of the page.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifying types of lines as parallel lines, perpendicular lines or intersecting lines.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces middle schoolers to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Intersecting and Parallel Lines
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify intersecting and parallel lines.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify intersecting, parallel and perpendicular lines in a plane
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Lines and Angles Study Guide
This study guide on lines and angles covers key terminology; line notation; parallel, perpendicular, and skew lines; and postulates and theorems about lines. It is available for download with free registration.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Points and Lines
A complete reference guide to points, lines, and planes. It provides definitions and interactive activities that enhance further explanation.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Discovering Lines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines Parallel, Intersecting, and Perpendicular lines. It also provides opportunities to practice working with Parallel, Intersecting and Perpendicular Lines!
City University of New York
Lehman College: An Introduction to Lines
Use this site for two short lesson plans regarding Euclidean and Spherical lines. Intersecting and parallel lines are discussed. The lesson contains activities for two days of class.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Two Points Determine a Line
In this video segment [2:10] from Cyberchase, Digit must make a straight line between the two points and then follow the path created.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallel Lines, Transversals and Angles
This activity allows students to: 1. Identify the pairs of angles formed when a transversal intersects two lines.: 2. Measure angles Using Cabri Jr. 3. Identify relationships between pairs of angles when a transversal intersects parallel...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Intersection of Two Straight Lines
Learn about the intersection of two straight lines with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Basic Geometry: Points, Lines, and Angles
Students can review basic geometric terms using these self-check, multiple choice questions. Three levels of questions are provided.
Other
Git: What Is the Slope Intercept Form of a Line?
Not only does this site show what the slope-intercept form is, but it helps you find the slope and the intercept of a line. There is also additional information on parallel lines, parametric form, and the distance between two points.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Brush up on your math skills relating to parallel and perpendicular lines then try some practice problems to test your understanding.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Parallel Lines
A definition for parallel lines in two-dimensional and three-dimensional Euclidean space. The site also gives reference to skew lines and explains the difference between skew and parallel lines in three-dimensional space.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
This lesson explains what are parallel and perpendicular lines and includes varied exercises and a video that shows how to draw a perpendicular line and a rectangle using a protractor or a triangular ruler.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 4.2 Theorems About Lines and Angles
Consider two parallel lines that are intersected by a transversal, and when it crosses the two others, many different angle pairs are formed. See the special properties of the angle pairs in this interactive.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, G Co, G Srt Unit Squares and Triangles
In this task, students are shown three unit squares and two line segments connecting two pairs of vertices. They are asked to find the area of a triangle formed by intersecting lines. They can solve it using coordinate geometry or...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Blast Off With Geometry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about polygons, angles, parallel, intersecting and perpendicular lines as you journey into space. Included is an activote quiz.