Given problem situations involving similar figures, the student will use and extend similarity properties and transformations to explore and justify conjectures about the given 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...

Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of similar figures. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...

Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of congruent and similar figures. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...

Given problem situations involving similar figures, the student will use ratios to solve the problems.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students identify corresponding parts of similar figures. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...

In this interactive, students explore how to use shadows, proportional reasoning, and similar figures to determine the unknown height of an object. The interactive allows students to explore the proportional relationships among the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find the ratios of the perimeters and areas of similar polygons. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional...

Find a clear explanation of similar figures. Discusses how they can be transformed through a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations. Explanations are supported with illustrated examples.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize the ratio of corresponding side lengths of similar figures as scale factor.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to find area and perimeter of similar polygons using ratios. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional...

Solve word problems step by step to determine similar figures.

In this instructional activity on similar figures and proportionality, students explore how to identify if figures are similar by applying their knowledge of corresponding angles and sides.

Given a pair of similar figures, including dilations, students will be able to generalize that the lengths of corresponding sides are proportional.

Given similar figures, the student will use critical attributes to define similarity.

Students learn about and practice identifying similar figures in this interactive web lesson.

Use Glencoe's Math Course 3 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of similar polygons. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...

Provides examples that illustrate similar triangles.

Lesson plan where students learn about congruent and similar figures by viewing models and by using geoboards, pattern blocks, and the Internet. (Note: Lesson cited in the procedures cannot be found at the link provided.)

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students what similar polygons are and how to use scale factors to solve for missing information in similar polygons.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Apply the properties of similar polygons.

This example provides a clear explanation of how to compare figures to see if they are similar and the formula to determine if the ratios are equal. Interactive practice activities are provided.

This lesson will discuss the relationship between scale factor and volume of similar figures. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Scale Factor and Volume of Similar Figures."

This lesson explains how similar figures are related to the concept of scale. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Scale and Similar Figures."