Willow Tree
Angle Measurement
What do you create when you rotate a ray? An angle! Teach all the angle basics including naming, measuring, supplements, and complements.
Willow Tree
Interior Angles, Exterior Angles, and Diagonals of Polygons
How does the number of sides of a polygon affect the angle measures? Learners recognize a pattern in finding the total measure of interior and exterior angles and the number of diagonals. They use the patterns to calculate...
Willow Tree
Angle Sum Property of Triangles
All triangles have some things in common. Using these properties of triangles, learners find missing angle measures. Scholars use the Angle Sum Property and properties of special triangles throughout the lesson.
Charleston School District
The Sum of Angles in a Triangle
An informative lesson contains a brief explanation of how the sum of the angles of a triangle is a line. The lesson continues with determining the missing angle in a triangle, or solving for a variable. Using the sum of the...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Law of Sines
One must obey the sine laws. A lesson introduces and derives the Law of Sines for non-right triangles. With examples that use the Law of Sines to determine unknown measures in triangles, the lesson checks to see if the Law...
Teach Engineering
Edible Rovers (High School)
Design and build a rover ... then eat it? This activity has groups of two design and build Mars rovers. The teams determine what instruments they want to include with their rover and plan a budget. They calculate the cost of the body of...
McGraw Hill
Triangles
After reviewing characteristics of seven types of triangles, young geometers discover how to find the missing angle of a triangle. Then, they practice identifying triangles, find missing angles, and find missing side lengths of...
It's About Time
Refraction of Light
Don't shine like a diamond, refract light like a diamond. Young scientists use an acrylic block and a laser light to observe refraction. Advanced scholars figure the sine of the angles of reflection and incidence as well as mastering...
Weber State University
The Sun and the Seasons
Why is there more daylight in June than in December if you live above the equator? How does the angle of sunlight shift throughout the year? Answer these questions and more with an interactive article about the sun, its path through the...
It's About Time
Reflected Light
The lesson allows young scientists to use lasers and mirrors to study reflected light. A reading passage and homework question assess learning, while additional material introduces extension activities.
Willow Tree
Common Geometric Figures
Geometry could be called the study of figures. An overview of the figures found in a typical geometry course contains a study of different triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons.
Charleston School District
Review Unit 2: Congruence and Similarity
Review for the test with a comprehensive list of terms and concepts for the unit on congruence and similarity. It divides divides the sections in the order of the lessons presented during the unit.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Angles
Everything you wanted to know about angles and more, including 1) how to measure angles 2) types of angles 3) angle relationships and 4) angles around a transversal.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Angle Measure of an Arc
Learn about the angle measure of an arc with this handy reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Review: Measuring Angles Review
Demonstrates how to use an interactive protractor to measure angle size. Includes three practice questions and explanations of their solutions.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Geometry: Measure and Classify an Angle
Explains the terms and symbols used to discuss line angles, what an angle is, and the types of angles. Includes short video lesson demonstrating how to use a protractor to measure an angle. [0:57]
Windstream
Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Measurement of Angles
An introduction to radian measurement, including converting between radians and degrees. Includes several examples and lots of pictures.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Arc
Learn about arcs with this handy reference guide. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University
Npac Reu Program: Often Used Values
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center of Syracuse University provides a quick reference chart of the exact values of the sine, cosine, and tangent functions for the most common angle measrements in the first quadrant. Includes both...