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Mathematics Assessment Project

Solving Problems with Circles and Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
After completing a task involving examining the ratio of areas of triangles and circles in a given figure, scholars examine sample responses to identify other strategies they could use to solve the problem.
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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...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Evaluating Statements About Enlargements

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Double, toil ,and double linear dimensions. Learners first complete an assessment investigating how doubling linear dimensions affects the area of pizzas and the volume of popcorn containers. They then complete an activity investigating...
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Beauty and Joy of Computing

Conditional Blocks

For Students 9th - 12th
If you use the resource, then pupils will understand conditional block instructions. In the first lab of a six-part unit, pupils learn how to use conditional statements (if/then) in block instructions for computer programming. They apply...
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Midsegments of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students analyze midsegments of triangles in this lesson. They use Cabri Jr. software to observe the relationships between interior angles and midsegments of triangles. Specific instructions for creating this lesson in Cabri Jr. are...
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Seeing Solar Storms in STEREO-II

For Students 11th - 12th
In this solar storms instructional activity, students use a diagram given the location of two STEREO spacecraft satellites, a coronal mass ejection, the sun and the Earth to solve 2 problems about the coronal mass ejection. Students use...
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Cockroach Slope

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Young scholars identify the slope of linear functions. In this slope lesson, students collect data and graph it. They write equations with no more than two variables and use technology to explain their data.
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Special Triangles and Circles

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate special triangles and circles. In this geometry activity, students construct a perpendicular bisector and discuss angles of a triangle. They find the angle bisectors, vetex and the types of circle constructed.
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Properties Of Building Materials

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the concept of building materials and how they are used to create different things. They focus upon the availability, cost, flexibility, and strength of different building materials. This is done by taking part...
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Measuring Angles

For Students 6th - 7th
For this math worksheet, students use protractors to measure each of a set of angles. This is a worksheet generator, the teacher controls the minimum and maximum angles students are presented with as well as whether or not to rotate...
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Mirror Symmetry/Mirror Images

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore lines of symmetry in geometric shapes. In this geometry lesson, students construct angles using mirrors and rubberbands, then predict the number of images that will appear in the reflection. Students reproduce lines of...
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Logic

For Students 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders investigate and solve various logic problems including the constructions and use of two way tables and Venn diagrams to assist in problem solving.  The eleven page worksheet contains nine...
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Angles

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students measure angles using a protractor. In this geometry lesson, students solve for the missing angles using equations set to the theorem of triangles. They measure missing angles through construction and identify congruent angles.
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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.
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N Equal Parts by Construction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners experiment with straight edges and compasses to divide lengths into equal parts. They identify different fractions of the total length.
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Geometry: Fractal Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils experience an Internet fractal scavenger hunt. They write a report on fractals using the Internet and recording the sites where they are located.
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Cut, Construct and Think 3

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify and create shapes. In this geometric shapes lesson, students identify various polygons and try to create new shapes using existing polygons.
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Cut, Construct and Think - 4

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify polygons. For this geometric shapes lesson, students identify and describe polygons. Students create new shapes out of the shapes they are given.
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Cut, Construct and Think - 6

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify polygons and calculate perimeter. For this geometric shapes lesson, students complete a worksheet identifying various polygons and calculating the perimeter of triangles and quadrilaterals.
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The Long and Short of It - Geometry

For Teachers 1st
First graders use appropriate vocabulary to compare the measurement of the animal he/she is drawing.
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Geometry House!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use computer drawing tools to create a house of geometric shapes.
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The Centroid : Balancing the History

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discover the centroid of a triangle based on Euclid's constructions. They explore locus of points of a median. They understand properties of the segments that form the median and areas of the smaller sections formed by the median.
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Who Built That NYS Thruway Bridge Anyway?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discover how engineers determine the best designs for bridge construction. They see how bridge constructions relates Engineering to Geometry. They see the implications and consequences of bridge design on your community/world.
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Play Dough Day

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders build a model of the following figures with the base from column I and the cross-section from column II. Draw the base with labeled axes on the graph paper and construct the figure on top of the base with the play dough...

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