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This worksheet allows students to practice the following geometric constructions using a straightedge and compass: copying a segment, copying an angle, bisecting a segment, bisecting an angle, and constructing a hexagon given one side. Students also record the steps they used to create each construction. This worksheet works well as a guided practice note taking guide to the "Basic Constructions Power Point Lesson". It can also be used as a constuctivist cooperative group exercise or for inde

This is a Power Point lesson that teaches students about three undefined terms of geometry: points, lines, and planes. The lesson defines the terms space, collinear points, coplanar, postulate, and axiom. It also includes step-by-step examples, guided practice problems, and four geometric postulates.

Kickin' It With Solids is an activity allows students the opportunity to make a personalized truncatated icosahedron (soccer ball shape). Included are step-by-step instructions, as well as tabbed templates of the required faces. This is a great hands-on math activity to expose students to the construction of polyhedrons, in this case an Archimedian solid. They see first-hand how the angles and edges of each shape coincide to creat a 3D solid. Students also personalize their soccer balls in a

This Power Point lesson teaches the Ruler Postulate, Protractor Postulate, Segment Addition Postulate, and Angle Addition Postulate and includes examples of how each postulate can be used to solve problems in geometry. The following terms are also defined: coordinate, congruent segments, midpoint, angle (including vertex and sides), congruent angles, and angle classifications (acute, right, obtuse, and straight). These notes with step-by-step examples and illustrations help to scaffold student

This Power Point lesson presents the perimeter and area formulas for squares and rectangles, as well as the circumference and area formulas for circles. It contains two area postulates and includes many step-by-step scaffolded examples and illustrations to show how the formulas can be used in problem solving applications.

This Power Point lesson defines and gives examples and sketches of segments, rays, opposite rays, parallel lines, skew lines, and parallel planes. It also introduces students to the notation and naming of these specific geometric figures.

This Power Point lesson teaches students the distance formula and midpoint formula and contains step-by-step scaffolded examples to show how they are used in problem solving applications.

This is a Power Point Lesson to teach students about using patterns and inductive reasoning to problem solve. The lesson introduces the terms inductive reasoning and conjecture, and includes several step-by-step examples.

This is a Power Point lesson that introduces students to vocabulary associated with geometric constructions: construction, straightedge, compass, perpendicular lines, perpendicular bisector, and angle bisector. It also provides an illustrated and step-by-step scaffolded example of how the properties of an angle bisector can be used to solve a geometric problem algebraically. The file "Straightedge and Compass" constructions is a great follow-up to this lesson, as it provides guided practice op

This powerpoint introduces students to the concepts of variables and equations and includes examples of writing equations from literal statements. This powerpoint goes along with the Using Variables Note-Taking Guide on Too Mathy's account.