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Building a Garden Fence

In this activity, students will use basic concepts of perimeter and area to investigate a classic problem situation requiring maximization. They must decide how to build a garden fence to enclose the largest possible area.
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Changing Before My Eyes

In this activity, students will discover how pictures formed by graphing ordered pairs can be stretched (and shrunk) by multiplying (and dividing) the coordinates.
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Comparing Area of Rectangles

In this activity, students discover the relationship between a change in the dimensions of a rectangle and the change in the corresponding area.
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Making Triangles

In this activity, students will investigate properties of triangles, classify the various types of triangles, and determine if specific side lengths will make a triangle or not.
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Mirror, Mirror, on the Graph

In this activity, students review basic geometry vocabulary while investigating reflections on a coordinate grid.
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Move it

In this activity, students investigate transformation, slides and scaling, of a triangle using lists. They will add, subtract and multiply numbers to the list and describe the changes that have occurred. Students are to make the connection between changing the x- or y-values and the transformation.
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Transforming Fish

In this activity, students will discover how pictures formed by graphing ordered pairs can be stretched (and shrunk) by multiplying (and dividing) the coordinates.
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Vertical Angles

In this activity, students visualize and explore the angles that are formed when two lines intersect. By measuring angles formed by intersecting lines, they enhance their understanding of vertical angles, supplementary angles, and a linear pair.
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