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Curated OER

Altitude Tracking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students estimate the altitude of a rocket during several flights. They create their own altitude tracking devise. They examine and discuss their results at the end of the activity.
App
Bytes Arithmetic

Geometry Pad+

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
Graphing paper, pencil, ruler, protractor, and compass, all get replaced or supplemented with this dynamic geometry application. Here, you can create, move, and scale many different shapes, as well as, explore and change their properties...
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Geometry Accelerated

Coordinate Geometry Additional Practice

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Your learners get extra practice using coordinates in calculating mid points, finding end points, deciding if points are collinear, calculations using slope concepts, writing linear equations, using triangles and quadrilaterals, and...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Special Lines in Triangles (part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Medians, midsegments, altitudes, oh my! Pupils study the properties of the median of a triangle, initially examining a proof utilizing midsegments to determine the length ratio of a median. They then use the information to find missing...
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Curated OER

Special Segments in Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students identify important properties of triangles. For this geometry lesson, students differentiate between medians, bisectors and altitudes in a triangle. They identify the properties of these important segments.
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Curated OER

Altitude, Median, and Angle Bisector of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate the special properties of an altitude, a median, and an angle bisector and explore how these special segments divide the area of a triangle. The dynamic nature of Cabri Jr. allows pupils to form and verify conjectures.
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Curated OER

Medians and Altitudes of Triangles

For Teachers 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders determine if a given segment is a median or altitude of a triangle and use then find the indicated missing length or equation of a line.  The two page worksheet contains twenty...
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Curated OER

Special Segments in a Triangle

For Teachers 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders review the vocabulary associated with the special segments of a triangle and the associated points of concurrency and solve problems in which they find the indicated missing angle or...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Lesson 5.3 Vocabulary Quiz: Concurrent Lines, Medians, & Altitudes

For Students 10th - 12th
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students match a given vocabulary word to the correct definition.  Words include such terms as altitude, centroid, circumcenter, circumscribed circle, inscribed circle, median and...
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Curated OER

Altitude Locator

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use protractors, strings, and straws to construct a device used to determine the height of tall objects. In this applied geometry lesson, students use common objects to construct a tangent height guide. They use principles...
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Curated OER

Lines In Geometry

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students define important vocabulary words using a dictionary. In this geometry lesson, students identify and use properties of triangles to solve problems. They identify the median. altitude and angles as well as properties of...
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Curated OER

Geometric Concepts and Polygons

For Students 9th - 11th
In this geometry activity, students identify the altitude, perpendicular bisector, median, angle bisector and the area of different polygons. There are 33 problems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Triangles

For Students 10th
In this triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 6 various types of problems. First, they draw a median and the altitude from the given angle in each triangle illustrated. Then, students determine which angle is equidistant...
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Curated OER

Similarity

For Students 10th
In this similarity worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 14 different types of problems. First, they find the length of each segment given two lines parallel. Then, students find the measure of each segment of a parallelogram...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Volume and Surface Area

For Students 10th
In this volume and surface area worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 12 different types of problems. First, they find the volume of an isosceles trapezoid. Then, students find the volume and total surface area of a sphere. They...
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Curated OER

Midpoints

For Students 10th
In this midpoints learning exercise, 10th graders solve and complete 10 different problems. First, they find the perimeter of each illustrated triangle. Then, students determine the bases and median of a trapezoid. They also prove that...
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Curated OER

Concurrent Lines, Medians and Altitudes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this geometry activity, students construct angles and identify medians and altitudes. They use a compass and protractor to perform heir construction. There are 28 questions.
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Curated OER

Exploring the Orthocenter of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young mathematicians explore the concept of triangles as they construct altitudes of triangles to find the orthocenter. Learners construct their triangles using Cabri Jr. on their graphing calculators and find that the altitudes of a...
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Curated OER

Altitude to the Hypotenuse

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can your class solve right triangles and identify the properties common to right triangles? They will investigate and state the relationship between the altitude to the hypotenuse and the two segments of the hypotenuse formed by the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geometry Practice: Volume

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this volume worksheet, students find the volume of 6 solids.  Students find the volume of rectangular and triangular prisms.
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EngageNY

Special Relationships Within Right Triangles—Dividing into Two Similar Sub-Triangles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Why are right triangles so special? Pupils begin their study of right triangles by examining similar right triangles. Verifying through proofs, scholars recognize the three similar right triangles formed by drawing the altitude. Once...
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Curated OER

Pyramids- Slant Height and Altitude

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars calculate the height and altitude of a pyramid. In this geometry lesson, students define the parts that make up a pyramid. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the missing parts of a pyramid.
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Curated OER

Angle Measurements

For Students 10th
In this angle measurement instructional activity, 10th graders solve and complete 9 different word problems. First, they read the word problems carefully. Then, students draw a picture that represents each problem and solve. Finally,...
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EngageNY

Law of Sines

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Prove the Law of Sines two ways. The ninth segment in a series of 16 introduces the Law of Sines to help the class find lengths of sides in oblique triangles. Pupils develop a proof of the Law of Sines by drawing an altitude and a second...