Activity
Noyce Foundation

Cut It Out

For Students K - 12th Standards
Explore the mathematics of the paper snowflake! During the five lessons progressing in complexity from K through 12, pupils use spatial geometry to make predictions. Scholars consider a folded piece of paper with shapes cut out....
Activity
Noyce Foundation

Once Upon a Time

For Students K - 12th Standards
Examine the relationship between time and geometry. A series of five lessons provides a grade-appropriate problem from elementary through high school. Each problem asks learners to compare the movement of the hands on a clock to an angle...
Activity
Noyce Foundation

Surrounded and Covered

For Students K - 12th Standards
What effect does changing the perimeter have on the area of a figure? The five problems in the resource explore this question at various grade levels. Elementary problems focus on the perimeter of rectangles and irregular figures with...
Worksheet
Yummy Math

A Cardioid for Valentine’s Day

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
It's Valentine's Day in geometry class! Celebrate the day of love with a heart-themed activity in which young mathematicians create a cardioid on polar graph paper.
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Swimming Pool II

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Combine geometry and algebra concepts to solve a modeling problem. Young scholars consider the effect surface area has on volume. They write a cubic function to model the possible volume given a specific surface area and then...
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Isosceles Triangle Spaces

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
How many different types of triangles can your class name? A discovery lesson guides learners through an exploration of the different triangle types and the relationships between their angles and sides. Using coordinate geometry,...
Instructional Video9:11
Corbett Maths

Algebraic Proof

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Proofs do not exist only in geometry. The video shows the class different ways that proofs appear in algebra. Pupils work through a variety of algebraic proofs involving the divisibility of an algebraic expression or whether it is even...
Instructional Video10:31
Corbett Maths

Transformations of Graphs

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Geometric transformations in algebra ... what? Given four transformations, the narrator explains how each affect the graph of the original function. The transformations involve translations and reflections, both horizontally and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pattern Block Fractions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a lesson that is about the finding of different fractional sizes with the help of pattern blocks. They define the vocabulary terms of numerator and denominator. The lesson also uses geometry and relates it...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring Yourself Using the Metric System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students measure using the metric system. In this geometry lesson plan, students solve problems using grams, meters and liters. They convert between the US units of measurements and the Metric System.
Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

The Area of Rectangles - Guided Lesson

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Geometry novices will enjoy this approach to finding area, as they aren't required to include units or a formula. The main objective here is to segment a rectangle into columns and rows to create squares, which then are used to find the...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Sum of Angles in a Polygon

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
How can learners use algebra to solve a geometry problem? Help learners create an equation that shows the relationship between the number of sides of a polygon and the sum of the interior angles. Students are asked to divide the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Point Reflection

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Use this task as an exit ticket for your eight graders during the geometry unit. All they need to do is identify the coordinates of a point reflected over y=2000. 
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

All vs. Only Some

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
All shapes have certain defining attributes that set them apart from others. In order to understand this, young mathematicians look at examples and non-examples of triangles, rectangles, and squares, working as a whole class to create...
Instructional Video7:11
Fun Stuff To Do

Square Pyramid

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Your geometry learners will appreciate this net for a square pyramid. Copy, cut, and manipulate to explore the surface area or volume of a square pyramid.
Instructional Video7:11
Wikihow

Volume of a Pyramid

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Your geometry learners will appreciate this poster explaining the volume of a square pyramid. It is simple, to the point, and includes pictures.
Lesson Plan
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Curated OER

How Much Folate?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This task includes scaffolding to support the introduction of the writing and graphing of linear inequalities. Then your geometry learners discover that writing down all possible combinations is not feasible so they are led to use...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Radical Equations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This task gives geometry learners practice in solving radical equations in one variable and zeros in extraneous solutions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why Does ASA Work?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Your geometry learners explore Angle-Side-Angle congruence in this collaborative task. The sum of the interior angles of all triangles being one hundred eighty degrees, is the key learners will discover as they explain their reasoning...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why Does SAS Work?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Your geometry learners are guided by questions that help them use the language of reflections to explain the Side-Angle-Side congruence between two triangles in this collaborative task. Given a sample solution, declaring the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Circumcenter of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your geometry learners will discover and show the construction of the circumcenter of a triangle. Guided by the steps in the activity, they construct perpendicular bisectors of each side that have a point of concurrency called the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tennis Balls in a Can

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Make your classroom interesting by teaching or assessing through tasks. Deepen the understanding of Geometry and motivate young mathematicians. The task uses investigation with tennis balls and their container to prompt learners to...
Lesson Plan
Hotchalk

Triangle Sum Theorem

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Your visual geometry learners will appreciate triangle drawings as they model the triangle sum theorem and algebraically solve to find the missing interior angle in a triangle. Practice problems increase in complexity and vary in their...
Printables
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Google

Pythagorean Theorem Foldable

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Your geometry learners will enjoy this color-coded foldable that simply asks them to find the lengths of different legs and the hypotenuse of a right triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem.

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