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Virginia Department of Education

Special Right Triangles and Right Triangle Trigonometry

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Right triangles are so special! Use special right triangles to discover the trigonometric ratios. Pairs construct special right triangles and find the values of the ratios of the sides. In the process, they discover the ratios stay the...
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Kim Brassard

Solving Right Triangles

For Students 7th - 10th
Solve that triangle! Your class examines angles and side measurements on 20 right triangles to determine the missing measurements. For some, they are given two sides while for others, they are given an angle and a side.
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Flipped Math

Special Right Triangles II

For Students 9th - 12th
Show students that right triangles are radical. Learners see how the lengths of the sides of a 45-45-90 triangle relate. Using that relationship, pupils observe how to find any of the lengths given one side of a triangle. They go on to...
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Curated OER

Area of Right-Angled Triangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a trick to solving the area of a triangle, and it involves a skill your geometers have already mastered. Help them discover the connection between finding a rectangle's area and finding a right triangle's area as they solve for...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Are These Right?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Is that a right triangle or a wrong triangle? Young mathematicians look at eleven different shapes and use a measuring tool of their choice to determine which triangles have right angles. Consider cutting out sets of the shapes to...
Instructional Video7:06
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Unit 7 Review: Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
It is all right to spend some time with a review. After watching a short review video covering the materials from the unit, pupils work through 23 review problems. Scholars work on problems involving the Pythagorean Theorem and its...
Activity
Noyce Foundation

Lyle's Triangles

For Students K - 12th Standards
Try five problems on triangles. Levels A and B focus on shapes that can be created from right triangles. Level C touches upon the relationship between the area of a six-pointed star and the area of each triangle of which it is composed....
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Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 12 various types of problems. First, they solve for x given each of the right triangles shown. Then, students determine the length of the shorter diagonal given the...
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Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 5 different types of problems. First, they solve each of the right triangles shown and express each answer correct to two decimal places. Then students find the...
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Curated OER

Special Right Triangles

For Students 9th - 12th
In this special right triangles worksheet, students solve 15 short answer problems. Students use trigonometric functions to find missing side lengths of various right triangles.
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Curated OER

Special Right Triangles Homework

For Students 9th - 12th
In this geometry worksheet, students solve both kinds of special right triangles. There are 12 questions with multiple parts.
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Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve 10 different problems that include various right triangles. First, they find the value of a base given its hypotenuse. Then, students determine an angle given the perimeter and...
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Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 14 various types of problems. First, they find the perimeter of the isosceles trapezoid shown. Then, students find the measures of each marked side of a right triangle....
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Curated OER

Isosceles Right Triangle

For Students 10th
In this isosceles right triangle worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 5 different constructions of composition and decomposition. First, they make 4 congruent isosceles triangles with the model on the left. Then, students create...
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Curated OER

Solve Right Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this trigonometric applications worksheet, students solve for the missing side of a right triangle using a trigonometric ratio. There are 46 questions, 10 of which are word problems.
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Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles learning exercise, 10th graders solve and complete 5 various types of problems. First, they solve each of the triangles shown and find the area of each triangle. Then, students find the perimeter and area of the...
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Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 13 different problems. First, they find the lengths of both missing sides. Then, students find the altitude of an equilateral triangle given the measure of one side. They...
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Curated OER

Easy Worksheet: Right Triangles and Circles

For Students 9th - 12th
In this right triangles and circles worksheet, students solve 4 short answer problems. Students describe a right triangle formed by point on a circle and an angle measure.
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Curated OER

Finding the Area of an Equilateral Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
The problem seems simple: find the area of the equilateral triangle whose sides are each length 1. In fact, this same problem is solved in 8th grade, addressing a different Common Core standard, using the formula for area of a triangle...
Interactive
Curated OER

7-2 Self Check Pythagorean Theorem Multiple Choice

For Students 8th - 10th
Middle and high schoolers use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine the length of the sides of a right triangle. They solve distance problems. This one-page learning exercise contains 10 multiple-choice problems. This is self-checking...
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Curated OER

Inverse Trig Functions

For Students 10th - 11th
Learners solve and graph 10 different problems that are the inverses of various trig functions. First, they determine which equation is equivalent to a given equation. Then, they find an angle of a right triangle, given its leg lengths....
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Curated OER

Finding Angles in Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this geometry learning exercise, 10th graders use right triangle trigonometry to solve application problems in which they find the measure of the missing angle in a right triangle.  The two page learning exercise contains five...
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Corbett Maths

Pythagoras Rectangles and Isosceles Triangles

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
When does the Pythagorean Theorem come in handy? An intriguing video uses the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems other than simply finding the length of a side of a right triangle. Pupils find the diagonal of a rectangle and the...
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Curated OER

Types of Triangles

For Students 2nd - 4th
Young math whizzes solve four problems in which a triangle with labeled angle measurements is analyzed. They mark if each triangle is acute, right, or obtuse.

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