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Students will learn to use basic geometric construction tools to copy a segment and an angle, then apply these skills repeatedly to construct a rhombus. The definition of a parallelogram is verified.

Students will use segment constructions to verify and demonstrate the golden ratio. These proportional relationships connect the golden ratio to the ancient Greek ideal of beauty, balance, and harmony.

Students will construct congruent segments on one ray of an angle and learn how to use a geometry set to create parallel lines to partition the other ray into a given ratio. The results are verified using corresponding angles and similar triangles.

Students will construct the perpendicular bisector of a segment to verify the construction of a rhombus as a parallelogram. Similarities and differences between a segment bisector and perpendicular bisector are revealed.

Students will use the construction of a perpendicular bisector to verify the Triangle Inequality Theorem. They will relate the radius of the compass needed to create intersecting arcs to the side-length conditions required for a triangle to exist.

Students will construct bisectors of segments to verify definitions and constructions of midpoints, medians, altitudes, the orthocenter, centroid, circumcenter, and the converse of the perpendicular bisector theorem, leading to the discovery of the Euler Line.

