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Congruent and Similar Figures

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Group that class and get them classifying and sorting figures as congruent or similar. They use magazines to identify and label similar and congruent figures, cutting out images and placing c or s next to each image.

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congruent figures, congruence, similar figures, similarity, ratios

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2nd
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Math
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