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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Transformations on a Pegboard

For Students 3rd - 5th
This one page website can expand your logic, Motion Geometry and pattern recognition knowledge. The solution is available to double check your answers.
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Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State Univ.: Trilingual Packaging Dilemma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Pennsylvania State University provides a hands-on activity to bridge the gap between right triangles, 30-60-90 and 45-45-90 theorems, and trigonometry, and what every student wants to know, "When will I ever use this?"...
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry lesson on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are introduced to...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Platonic Solids Ornaments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a hands-on activity that introduces students to the five Platonic solids. Students will discover the special relationship between faces, vertices, and edges. Students will research the Platonic solids and then construct and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Introducing Pi!"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The overriding purpose of the lesson is to actively engage students in learning activities that promote opportunities for students to discover the 'meaning' of pi. Activities will include research, hands-on, software applications,...
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Let's Face It [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Check out this math project about polyhedra! Students will enjoy the hands-on activity while they learn about tetrahedrons, hexahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons, and icosahedrons. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Measurement Inches

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan for primary students gives students hands-on practice in using a ruler and understanding customary measurements, length and width in inches. Students also create simple one and two digit addition problems related to the...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: What's My Angle?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Do people with big hands have larger angles between their fingers? See if you can find the answer this question when you try this math challenge on estimating and measuring angles. Discover how understanding angles and geometric shapes...