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Three Rubber Bands AssessmentThree Rubber Bands Assessment
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Concord Consortium
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Grade
7th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
30 mins
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Ed Software
Year
1995
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Three Rubber Bands

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Stretch your mind about triangles. Given a triangle, scholars consider a smaller triangle formed when they stretch three rubber bands from each vertex to the opposite side. They determine the ratios of the areas and perimeters of the smaller triangle to the larger triangle.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

triangles, ratios, area, perimeter

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Assign a different type of triangles to each group and then compare findings

Classroom Considerations

  • Learners should be familiar with area and perimeter of triangles
  • An understanding of ratio is also important

Pros

  • Provides a printable worksheet with a separate answer key

Cons

  • Resource mentions geometry software, but it does not provide a link; without it, the task becomes overly burdensome in terms of computations

Common Core

MP1 MP8

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