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Tessel Your Way to Nagano!: Olympics, Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Design, Geometry, Math, M.C. Escher, Tessellations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create Post-It note fundamental regions to tesselate. They make tesselations using computer software or websites. They create a jacket design with tesselation and determine the cost of production.
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Curated OER

Geometry: Plane Figures

For Students 5th - 6th
In this plane figure worksheet, students complete 4 multiple choice questions, determining which solid figure can be traced to make a given plane figure. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Lesson Plan
Digging Into Math

Classifying Triangles

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Young mathematicians explore the world of three-sided shapes in this lesson on the different types of triangles. Starting with a general introduction to classification using Venn diagrams, children learn how to categorize triangles...
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Alberta Learning

Area and Perimeter of Irregular Shapes

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Evaluate young mathematicians' understanding of area and perimeter with this series of three assessment tasks. Challenging students to not only calculate the area and perimeter of irregular shapes, but to explain in writing their...
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Mathster

Line and Rotational Symmetry

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Challenge young mathematicians' understanding of symmetry. Provided with images of different shapes, letters, and national flags, students are tasked with identifying the lines of symmetry and order of rotational symmetry...
Handout
McGraw Hill

Triangles

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
After reviewing characteristics of seven types of triangles, young geometers discover how to find the missing angle of a triangle. Then, they practice identifying triangles, find missing angles, and find missing side lengths of...
Printables
Curated OER

Anticipation Guide: Similar and Congruent

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Find out what your mathematicians know about similar and congruent figures with this anticipatory guide that includes five agree or disagree with statements.    
Activity
James Dyson Foundation

Challenge Cards

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Can you build it? Yes you can! This interactive game includes four design challenges presented on separate cards. The cards outline the challenges with limited restrictions but with an end goal in mind. The competitions include building...
Activity
GLOBE Program

Making a Sundial

For Teachers K - 8th
Sundials are more than just primitive clocks. Learners build their own sundials to study the location of the sun across the sky throughout the day. They use shadow evidence related to their sundials to make conclusions about solar movement.
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Curated OER

"Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" by Deborah Hopkinson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create paper quilts of their own using the isometric grid that tessellates the plane or the fraction quilt square.
Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Rotational Symmetry of Polygons and Other Figures

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore geometry by participating in a shape rotation experiment. In this symmetry instructional activity, students identify the term symmetry and a list of other geometry vocabulary. Students analyze shapes as they are turned...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Triangle Puzzler

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to some basic concepts of geometry. They explain that the definition of a triangle is a figure with three sides, three angles, and three points. Triangles can be named by using three points in their correct sequence.
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Curated OER

Don't Burst My Bubble

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice using measuring techniques by examining bubbles.  In this geometry lesson, students utilize mathematic formulas to discover the circumference and diameter of soap bubbles they blow.  Middle schoolers...
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Curated OER

Surface Area of Rectagular Prisms

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the area of polygons. In this geometry lesson, 6th graders calculate area of prisms using geometric formulas. They work with prisms and other rectangular shapes.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, students find the definitions for the words that are related to the concepts of geometry. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Quadrilaterals

For Students 5th - 6th
In this geometry instructional activity, students determine if a figure is a quadrilateral. If so, students continue to answer questions to determine whether it is a square, diamond, rhombus, rectangle, parallelogram or trapezoid.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Square- Pyramid Net- Learning Tool

For Students 4th - 6th
In this geometry instructional activity, students cut out the net for a square pyramid. They cut along the dotted lines and fold the shape into at three-dimensional model.
Organizer
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Triangular- Pyramid Net Pattern

For Students 5th - 6th
In this geometry worksheet, students cut out the pattern for a triangular-pyramid net. They cut the pattern on the dotted lines and fold it to make a three-dimensional study model.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Window Work Math Activity

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math activity, students apply an understanding of measurement and geometry to create their own window. The skill of estimation is used also.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Equations Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math activity, students create and solve equations with the help of Algebra Tiles. Then they apply formulas for geometry to find the perimeter of a polygon.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mobius Strips

For Students 4th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students create a mobius strip and then think critically about the geometry of them. The outcomes are written on page 2.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Quickies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math problem solving worksheet, students answer 5 problems in 10 minutes. The problems include a variety of questions that could be solved by students who have had geometry and algebra.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rallytable Angle Measuring

For Teachers 6th - 10th
For this geometry worksheet, students measure various angles. First, they write what type of angle each one is, whether right, acute, or obtuse. Then students estimate the measurement and then write the actual measurement for each angle.
Worksheet
Curated OER

My Spelling Words: Spelling List #160

For Students 4th - 6th
In this spelling activity, students practice reading and writing twelve spelling words. Next, they look up the word and write its' definition. All words are math related, having to do with area, geometry, and order of operations.

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