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Working with Coordinate Planes: Activities and Supplemental Materials
Seven activities make up a collection of supplemental materials to reinforce graphing on a coordinate plane. Worksheet objectives include plotting coordinates within single and four quadrants, measuring straight and diagonal lines, and...
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Line Hunt
Learners identify lines in everyday images. In this art analysis lesson, students practice drawing diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines on pieces of chart paper. Learners examine a page from a magazine and identify the different...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 5 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 6)
Acute angle, line of symmetry, and vertex are a few terms you'll find in a set of 90 flashcards designed to reinforce math vocabulary. Included in the set are two types of cards; a word card printed in bold font, and a definition card...
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Going out of Business: Pythagorean Theorem
Students find the length of diagonals. For this Pythagorean theorem lesson, students use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the length of diagonals.
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A Fibonacci Primer
Upper graders explore the Fibonacci sequence. They examine the characteristics of the Fibonacci sequence, list the properties of the sequence and determine how it connects to Pythagorean Triples. Related thinking questions are included.
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Interior Design: Poster Board Lines
Observe different types of lines and apply skills to create posters demonstrating line directions. Discern the four different types of lines and the ambience each creates in a room. In groups, explain each line poster.
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Diagonals and Altitudes
Learners discover the mathematical way to find the dimensions of a diagonal. Using this process, they complete a worksheet in which they identify the relationships between different degree triangles. They review their answers and are...
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Find Someone Who........
Fifth graders identify, describe, and classify lines, line segments, rays, and angles. When given a diagram of a line, they classify the line as perpendicular, parallel, intersecting, vertical, horizontal, and/or diagonal.
Lincoln Public Schools
Developmental Strokes: Pre-Writing Worksheet
Young writers develop their fine motor skills one stroke at a time with this simple tracing worksheet. Looking at pictures of eight basic figures ranging from horizontal and vertical lines to circles and triangles, children practice...
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Diagonals to Quadrilaterals II
Pupils identify the properties of different polygons. In this geometry lesson, students find the slope of a line and calculate the distance between two lines. They differentiate between similar and congruent polygons.
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Diagonals of Quadrilaterals
Students find the diagonals of the quadrilaterals. In this geometry lesson, students identify and use properties of quadrilaterals. They define different parts of a quadrilateral shape.
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5, 6, 7, 8 Line Dance
Students practice counting to eight while listening to music, move to the beat of the music, and learn simple dance steps.
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x-rays - the Letter X
Students demonstrate the ability to draw vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, recognize the difference between inside and outside, and create a picture of themselves.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 6 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 5)
Acute angles, nets, and vertices are only a few terms that a set of flash cards includes. Among the 108 cards, two types are available; word cards printed in bold-faced lettering, and corresponding definition cards equipped with an...
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Men in Black Line Dance
Learners practice and perform a line dance to Smith's song Men in Black.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 6 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 3)
A set of 49 math vocabulary cards ranges from angle to irregular polygon to parallel lines. Each sheet contains two cards: one with the word printed in bold text and the other with the definition.
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Toothpick Art
Students review primary colors and practice making straight lines. In this visual arts lesson, students paint simple shapes as large as a toothpick, using specific primary colors. During the construction of the shapes students are...
Key Curriculum Press
Properties of Special Parallelograms
Rhombuses, rectangles and squares are have special properties. In this lesson, young geometers investigate and make conjectures about diagonals, angles, and parallel lines of parallelograms.
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Around The Stop Sign
Students analyze a drawing of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle to determine angle measures, using knowledge of properties of regular polygons and the sums of angles in various polygons to help solve the problem. They use...
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Interior Design Techniques in Black and White
Young scholars create interior designs using white paper and black ink. In the process, they incorporate all four line techniques - horizontal, vertical, curved, and diagonal. While the designs do not need to be tangible...
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Quick Ball
Students are introduced to the game of Quick Ball. In single file lines, they pass the ball to the person in the other line and continue to pass the balls diagonally. To end the instructional activity, they discuss the importance of...
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Slippery Slope
Students define patterns, relation and function. In this algebra lesson, students find the slope of a line and write equations of line. They model the slope using real life scenarios.
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Platonic Solids
Students identify different types of polygons. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate between convex and regular shapes. they identify the names of two and three-dimensional objects.
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New Visions of the World
Young scholars explore the art of Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian as an analysis of abstract painting. In this abstract painting lesson, students explore the painting style of the two artists. Young scholars analyze the use of shape,...