Cluster 3: Prove geometric theorems. (Geometry - Major Cluster)Archived

Students are given the measure of one interior angle of an isosceles triangle and are asked to find the measure of another interior angle.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given parallelogram ABCD along with midpoint E of diagonal AC and are asked to determine the relationship between the lengths AE + ED and BE + EC.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given expressions that represent the measures of two angles of a parallelogram and are asked to find the measure of an angle opposite one of the given angles.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove the Triangle Inequality Theorem.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to explain why the sum of the lengths of the diagonals of an isosceles trapezoid is less than its perimeter.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to explain how to determine whether a four-sided frame is a rectangle using only a tape measure.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that corresponding angles formed by the intersection of two parallel lines and a transversal are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to explain why a pair of triangles formed by the sides and diagonals of a parallelogram are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given expressions that represent the measures of two angles of a parallelogram and are asked to find the measures of all four angles describing any theorems used.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to explain why a quadrilateral formed by drawing the midsegments of a triangle is a parallelogram and to find the perimeter of the triangle formed by the midsegments.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to explain why the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a convex n-gon is given by the formula (n – 2)180°.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given the lengths of two sides of a triangle and asked to describe all possible lengths of the remaining side.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to describe a triangle whose vertices are the endpoints of a segment and a point on the perpendicular bisector of a segment.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given a triangle in which the midpoints of two sides are shown and are asked to describe a method for locating the midpoint of the remaining side using only a straight edge and pencil.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to find the measures of angles formed by three concurrent lines and to justify their answers.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to find the measure of an angle in a diagram containing two parallel lines and two transversals.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to find the measures of angles formed by two parallel lines and two transversals.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to find the measures of angles formed by two parallel lines and a transversal.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that the diagonals of a rectangle are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that a rectangle is a parallelogram.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that opposite angles of a parallelogram are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that opposite sides of a parallelogram are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

In a diagram involving two parallel lines and a transversal, students are asked to use rigid motion to prove that alternate interior angles are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that the medians of a triangle are concurrent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked prove that the measures of the interior angles of a triangle sum to 180°.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that a point on the perpendicular bisector of a line segment is equidistant from the endpoints of the segment.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to identify a pair of vertical angles in a diagram and then prove that they are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that the base angles of an isosceles triangle are congruent.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to prove that the segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side of the triangle and half of its length.

Type: Formative Assessment

This large collection of clipart contains images of angles that can be freely used in lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations.

Type: Image/Photograph

Students explore ideas on how civil engineers use triangles when constructing bridges. Students will apply knowledge of congruent triangles to build and test their own bridges for stability.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson provides a straightforward way to show the steps and the thought process of a proof involving the Triangle Mid-Segment Theorem and algebra.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students identify, analyze, and understand the Triangle Centroid Theorem. Students discover that the centroid is the point of concurrency for the medians of a triangle and recognize its associated usage with the center of gravity or barycenter. This set of instructional materials provides the teacher with hands-on activities using technology as well as paper-and-pencil methods.

Type: Lesson Plan

A lesson where students apply parallelogram properties and theorems to solve real world problems. The teacher models a problem solving strategy, which involves drawing a picture, highlighting important information, estimating and/or writing equation, and solving problem (P.I.E.S.).

Type: Lesson Plan

Students prove theorems related to parallel lines using vertical, corresponding, and alternate interior angles.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students learn about the relationship between vertical angles by making inferences and proving the Vertical Angle Theorem. They then use this relationship to prove other angle relationships and to find angle measurements by using vertical angles.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is an exploration activity assisting students prove that diagonals of parallelograms bisect each other. It allows them to compare some quadrilaterals with parallelograms in order to make conjectures about the diagonals of parallelograms.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students, with the aid of GeoGebra software, will prove and use congruence of corresponding angles produced by parallel lines intersected by a traversal.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson reviews the definition of a parallelogram and related theorems. Students use these conditions to algebraically prove or disprove a given quadrilateral is a parallelogram.

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Students will explore triangle inequalities that exist between side lengths with physical models of segments. They will determine when a triangle can/cannot be created with given side lengths and a range of lengths that can create a triangle.

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Students will construct the medians of a triangle then investigate the intersections of the medians.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will use dynamic geometry software to determine the optimal location for a facility under a variety of scenarios. The experiments will suggest a relation between the optimal point and a common concept in geometry; in some cases, there will be a connection to a statistical concept. Algebra can be used to verify some of the conjectures.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will construct the centroid of a triangle using graph paper or GeoGebra in order to develop conjectures. Then students will prove that the medians of a triangle actually intersect using the areas of triangles. 

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will be able to prove that alternate interior angles are congruent and corresponding angles are congruent given two parallel lines and a traversal line. Students will use GeoGebra to explore real-world images to see if they can prove that their line segments are parallel.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed to address all levels and types of learners to improve understanding of the triangle sum theorem from the simplest perspective and progress steadily by teacher lead activities to a more complex level. It is intended to create a solid foundation in geometric reasoning to help students advance to higher levels in confidence.

Type: Lesson Plan

The students will investigate and discover relationships within triangles; such as, the triangle angle sum theorem, and triangle inequalities.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is intended to help you assess how well students are able to produce and evaluate geometrical proofs. In particular, this unit is intended to help you identify and assist students who have difficulties in:

• Interpreting diagrams.
• Identifying mathematical knowledge relevant to an argument.
• Linking visual and algebraic representations.
• Producing and evaluating mathematical arguments.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students can understand the concepts of length and area, use the concept of area in proving why two areas are or are not equal and construct their own examples and counterexamples to help justify or refute conjectures.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson leads students to discover empirically that the distance from each vertex to the intersection of the medians of a triangle is two-thirds of the total length of each median.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will derive the formula for the sum of the interior angles of a polygon by drawing diagonals and applying the Triangle Sum Theorem. The measure of each interior angle of a regular polygon is also determined.

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Students will develop their knowledge of perpendicular bisectors & point of concurrency of a triangle, as well as construct perpendicular bisectors through real world problem solving with a map.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will develop their knowledge of mid-segments of a triangle, construct and provide lengths of mid-segments.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will use their knowledge of graphing concurrent segments in triangles to locate and identify which points of concurrency are associated by location with cities and counties within the Texas Triangle Mega-region.

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Students will start the lesson by playing a game to review angle pairs formed by two lines cut by a transversal. Once students are comfortable with the angle pairs the teacher will review the relationships that are created once the pair of lines become parallel. The teacher will give an example of a proof using the angle pairs formed by two parallel lines cut by a transversal. The students are then challenged to prove their own theorem in groups of four. The class will then participate in a Stay and Stray to view the other group's proofs. The lesson is wrapped up through white board questions answered within groups and then as a whole class.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will use dynamic geometry software to determine the optimal location for a facility under a variety of scenarios. The experiments will suggest a relation between the optimal point and a common concept in geometry; in some cases, there will be a connection to a statistical concept. Algebra can be used to verify some of the conjectures.

Type: Lesson Plan

This problem solving task asks students to find the area of an equilateral triangle.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

This task asks students to show how certain points on a plane are equidistant to points on a segment when placed on a perpendicular bisector.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

This is a reasonably direct task aimed at having students use previously-derived results to learn new facts about parallelograms, as opposed to deriving them from first principles.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

This problem solving task challenges students to find the perpendicular meeting point of a segment from the center of a circle and a tangent.

Type: Problem-Solving Task

This task is intended to help model a concrete situation with geometry. Placing the seven pennies in a circular pattern is a concrete and fun experiment which leads to a genuine mathematical question: does the physical model with pennies give insight into what happens with seven circles in the plane?

Type: Problem-Solving Task

In this tutorial, students will find the measures of angles formed when a transversal cuts two parallel lines.

Type: Tutorial

This tutorial shows students the eight angles formed when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal line. There is also a review of triangles in this video.

Type: Tutorial

Students will see in this tutorial the eight angles formed when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal line.

Type: Tutorial

In this tutorial, students will learn the angle measures when two parallel lines are cut by a transversal line.

Type: Tutorial

In this video, students will learn how to use what they know about the sum of angles in a triangle to determine the sum of the exterior angles of an irregular pentagon.

Type: Tutorial

In this tutorial, students prove that vertical angles are equal. Students should have an understanding of supplementary angles before viewing this video.

Type: Tutorial

Students will use algebra to find the measure of vertical angles, or angles opposite each other when two lines cross. Students should have an understanding of complementary and supplementary angles before viewing this video.

Type: Tutorial

In this tutorial, students will use their knowledge of supplementary, adjacent, and vertical angles to solve problems involving the intersection of two lines.

Type: Tutorial

Lets prove that the sum of interior angles of a triangle are equal to 180 degrees.

Type: Tutorial

Let's find the measure of an angle, using interior and exterior angle measurements.

Type: Tutorial

We will use algebra in order to find the measure of angles formed by a transversal.

Type: Tutorial

We will be able to identify corresponding angles of parallel lines.

Type: Tutorial

We will gain an understanding of how angles formed by transversals compare to each other.

Type: Tutorial

This 5 minute video gives the proof that vertical angles are equal.

Type: Tutorial