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Illustrative Mathematics

The Geometry of Letters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Use the alphabet as a tool for teaching your class about geometric figures. Break apart capital letters into line segments and arcs. Classify angles as right, acute, or obtuse. Identify parallel and perpendicular lines. An excellent...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Altitude, Median, and Angle Bisector of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will construct special segments of a triangle named altitudes, medians, and angle bisectors, Using their definitions. You will look at how an altitude, a median, and an angle bisector divide the area of a triangle....
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems: Point, Line, Planes, Angles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice using your graphing calculator for drawing and labeling points, lines, planes, and angles. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then select the View Solution button, which is located directly under each...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Bisect a Line Segment and an Angle

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This step-by-step tutorial teaches students how to construct a bisector of a segment and the bisector of an angle.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Finding the Shortest Path

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discover the shortest distance light travels from an object to the human eye, as the light from the object reflects off a single mirror. In the process they learn about reflection in a line, congruent angles, angle bisectors,...
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Other

Advogato: Trigonometry by Geometric Construction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Advogato is all about angles. It contains information starting with what an angle is and what it looks like, all the way up to bisecting angles and theorems about angles. This is very good information for students just...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Triangle Properties Assessment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses Cabri Jr. to assess the students' knowledge of various segments related to triangles: perpendicular bisector, median, angle bisector, midsegment, and altitude.
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BBC

Bbc: Ks3 Bitesize: Constructions and Locus

For Students 9th - 10th
This BBC Bitesize focuses on constructions and locus. To understand this activity, you must already know how to define perpendicular, bisect, and locus.