Illustrative Mathematics
Distance across the channel
Here you will find a model of a linear relationship between two quantities, the water depth of a channel and the distance across the channel at water level. The cross section of the channel is the shape of an isosceles trapezoid. The...
Curated OER
Symmetries of a Quadrilateral II
Learners investigate the symmetries of a convex quadrilateral in a collaborative activity. Rigid motion and complements are explored as learners analyze different cases of reflections across a line.
Shasta County Office of Education
Human Graphing Activity
Take graphing outside and make a giant coordinate plane to plot your human points. Young graphers are each given a coordinate for a particular shape and asked to make the geometrical shapes one by one. Those not plotted are to write down...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Investigating Properties of Trapezoids
Students draw trapezoids and investigate their properties. They derive the area formula for a triangle from the area formula for a trapezoid. They also investigate the terms: Isosceles trapezoid and Tessellation. Numerous supplementary...
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Isosceles Trapezium
This is a "three star" geometry problem where prior knowledge of problem solving and thinking through proofs is recommended to solve this trapezoid inscribed in a semicircle problem.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Count the Trapeziums (Trapezoids)
The challenge at this one page website, is to see how many trapezoids (British-trapeziums) you can find in the figure. When you have your results, you can easily check it right at the website.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems: Quadrilaterals
Practice using your graphing calculator for constructing a parallelogram, a rhombus, a kite, a trapezoid, an isosceles trapezoid, a rectangle, and a square. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View...
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Hidden Polygon Activity
On this site students are instructed to locate different types of polygons on triangle grid paper. This page can be printed so that students can actually draw them. It also gives a definitions link for each polygon.