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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Fractals and the Chaos Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use the "Fractals and Chaos Game" game as a follow up to previous work on geometric fractals. Included are related activities.
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Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Inscribed Rectangle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a proof problem, considered a "three star" geometry problem requiring knowledge of proofs and properties of circles to solve this equal area of inscribed polygons problem.
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Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Three Circles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a proof problem, considered a "three star" geometry problem requiring knowledge of proofs and properties of circles.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Translations of Geometric Figures: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present how to translate a geometric figure on a coordinate plane, and will discuss how the properties of the figure are affected. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Translations of Geometric Figures."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Translations of Geometric Figures: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will present how to translate a geometric figure on a coordinate plane, and will discuss how the properties of the figure are affected. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Translations of Geometric Figures."
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Classify Shapes by Line and Angle Types

For Students 4th
Look at the properties of 2D shapes to see which shapes can belong to the same group. Includes hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quadrilaterals Review

For Students 4th
After reviewing the properties of different quadrilaterals, students answer questions about each type.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Where Are They?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your logic, polygon properties, and pattern recognition skills working on this challenge. Solution included.
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Math2

Math2.org: Series Expansions

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough review of calculus series. Links direct the student to the basic properties of series, as well as to explanations and examples of convergence tests in series. The expansions for exponential, logarithmic, and root functions and...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Cut the Cake

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
A math challenge where geometry, measurement, and problem solving meet. Explore the properties of three dimensional shapes when you discover how six friends can equally divide a nine inch square chocolate cake. A one page activity from...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Fire Hydrant

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Discover how the geometric shape of an object directly relates to its usefullness in this math challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection. A one page activity that you can print or download.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Geometry in Tessellations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This upper elementary and middle school lesson plan explores tessellations and their geometric properties. Plenty of interactive support is available for young scholars. Lots of resources for teachers to use.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Are Manhole Covers Round?

For Students 9th - 10th
Why are most manhole covers round? Sure it makes them easy to roll, and slide into place in any alignment. But there's another, more compelling reason, involving a peculiar geometric property of circles and other shapes. Marc Chamberland...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Parabolic Mirror: Working, Principle and Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how a parabolic mirror works and how to calculate its geometric properties. Discusses the two forms - parabolic troughs and parabolic dishes - and how these are used in solar panels and satellite dishes. Other real-life...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Sierpinski's Carpet

For Students 9th - 10th
Step through the generation of Sierpinski's Carpet, a fractal made from subdividing a square into nine smaller squares and cutting the middle one out. Explore number patterns in sequences and geometric properties of fractals.
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Koch's Snowflake

For Students 9th - 10th
Step through the generation of the Koch Snowflake, a fractal made from deforming the sides of a triangle, and explore number patterns in sequences and geometric properties of fractals.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Tilt of Earth's Axis and the Four Seasons

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task gives young scholars a chance to explore the effects of the Earth's tilt and rotation using a simple geometric model of Earth-Sun interaction that shows why the seasons occur. Aligns with G-MG.A.1.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Shapes: Geometry Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Shapes is a fun educational activity to help children learn basic properties of simple geometric figures. Children will practice looking for differences and similarities between shapes to complete puzzles. Shapes! gets progressively more...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, G Co, G Srt Unit Squares and Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown three unit squares and two line segments connecting two pairs of vertices. They are asked to find the area of a triangle formed by intersecting lines. They can solve it using coordinate geometry or...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Line

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This MathWorld site gives Euclid's definition of a line, properties of lines, common terminology, and algebraic representations of lines and their distinctive parts in a cartesian system. The site then goes into detail of different line...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Angles Formed by Two Intersecting Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will investigate the properties of angles formed by intersecting lines. They examine the definition of adjacent angles, supplementary angles, and vertical angles and learn about two important geometric theorems dealing with...
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Sucesion De Fibonacci

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. This unit is about Fibonacci numbers, some of its most interesting properties and their occurrence both in nature and art.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Parallelograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students properties of and theorems about parallelograms and how to apply them.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane Cabri Jr: Interactive

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.

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