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PBS

Accessible Shapes

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
All the 2-D and 3-D measurement work you need is in one location. Divided into three sections, the geometry lesson plans consist of visualization of three dimensions, classifying geometric figures, and finding surface area and volume....
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Curated OER

List of Geometry Terms

For Students 4th - 9th
In this angle vocabulary card instructional activity set, learners identify the vocabulary associated with angles such as: ray, vertex, acute angle, segment bisector, and corresponding angles. They identify 23 terms but there are no...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Introducing the Concept: Triangles and Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Guide your geometers through the process of constructing polygons. They learn how to draw triangles, squares, parallelograms, rectangles, rhombuses, and trapezoids with specified angles using a protractor and a ruler. The lesson plan...
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Curated OER

Triangles Word Search

For Students 5th - 6th
In this word search worksheet, students locate 7 types of triangles. Triangles include isosceles, acute, equilateral, right, and obtuse.
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Curated OER

Identifying Triangles

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify and define a variety of triangles. In this identification of triangles lesson, 6th graders draw examples of each triangle on a whiteboard, then complete a worksheet.
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Curated OER

Got Milk?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure the angles of a milk carton. They identify and label acute, right, and obtuse angles. Using appropriate tools, students determine the volume of a cube or a rectangular prism. Students complete worksheets to...
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Curated OER

Lesson Plans that Measure Up

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
You can use creative ways to teach angle lessons that will meet the needs of all students.
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Curated OER

Exploring Altitudes in Math

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students draw and calculate altitudes. They draw the altitude of acute, right and obtuse triangles and calculate the altitude of a triangle using the Pythagorean theorem.
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Curated OER

Identifying Triangles

For Students 4th - 6th
In this triangle worksheet, students label triangles as acute, right, obtuse, scalene, equilateral or isosceles. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Raytheon

Understanding Triangles

For Students 6th - 8th
In this understanding triangles worksheet, students read 6 pages of examples and explanations about identifying triangles, determining length of sides and degrees of angles, including the hypotenuse, then answer 28 questions, answers...
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Curated OER

Identify Triangles #

For Students 4th - 6th
In this triangle learning exercise, students identify triangles as scalene, equilateral, right, obtuse, acute or isosceles. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Curated OER

Identify Triangles #2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this triangle learning exercise, students identify a set of triangles as either acute, right or obtuse, checking the appropriate box beneath each. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Curated OER

Identify Triangles

For Students 4th - 6th
For this triangles worksheet, students identify triangles as either Acute, right or obtuse. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Curated OER

Identify Triangles

For Students 4th - 6th
For this triangle worksheet, students check the correct answer, identifying triangles as either right, obtuse, acute, scalene, isosceles or equilateral. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Dick Blick Art Materials

Start with a Circle...

For Students K - 12th
The Golden Ratio. The Divine Proportion. Yup. It's math and art blended into one colorful activity. Young artists combine colored tissue paper circles and parts of circles to create geometric patterns. As a bonus, kids get to figure out...
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National Security Agency

Classifying Triangles

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Building on young mathematicians' prior knowledge of three-sided shapes, this lesson series explores the defining characteristics of different types of triangles. Starting with a shared reading of the children's book The Greedy...
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Curated OER

Symmetry and Geometric Shapes on Campus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Build on your learners' previous knowledge of geometric shapes and symmetrical figures. Then set them out to take photos of geometric shapes on campus. They assess whether the photos contain symmetry or not. 
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Curated OER

Geometry and Measurement Pre-Test

For Students 6th - 10th
Use this comprehensive pre-instruction assessment tool to focus your teaching where your class needs it most. Multiple choice questions assess your budding geometers' conceptual and vocabulary knowledge, but they do not solve any...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Challenge

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math vocabulary worksheet, students choose which multiple choice answer best defines twenty-five mathematical terms. Students place their answers on the lines provided.
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Curated OER

Quilt Squared

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study West Virginia quilts. In this mathematics activity, students use symmetry, geometric shapes, and patterns to create their own quilt square.
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Curated OER

Triangles

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students identify triangles in the real world and construct their own triangle using drinking straws. They explore abstract triangles and find additional geometric shapes such as trapezoids. Students discuss similar shapes and examine...
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Curated OER

Shape Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore differents types of triangles and quadriaterals. In this polygon lesson, students  model identify and compare two and three dimensional geometric figures. Young scholars create tangrams and discover the...
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Curated OER

Problem Solving: Strategy: Use Logical Reasoning

For Students 6th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, 6th graders solve a story problem using the strategies of understand, plan, solve, and look back.
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Curated OER

Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem. After conducting independent practice to find the hypotenuse of a triangle, they work with the teacher using examples in the lesson plan. The direct instruction is delivered...

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