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Parallel and Perpendicular Slopes

This activity is for use as a formative assessment tool after the introduction and overview of parallel and perpendicular slopes.
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Approaching the Golden Ratio

Students will observe that the ratio of consecutive terms in all Fibonacci-like sequences approaches the Golden Ratio.
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Mapping Success

In this activity, students will load a background image of a map and use the scale on the map to estimate distances.
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REAL LIFE REAL WORLD Activity: Air Traffic Control

In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are then applied to find the solution.
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Modeling Herd Immunity

In this TI-84 activity, students investigate the concept of herd immunity and the role vaccines/interventions can play in helping to control the spread of a communicable disease.
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ASA Triangle Congruence

1.Construct an triangle and select two angles and the contained side to copy to a second triangle. 2.Measure sides and angles to visualize congruence properties 3.Try to alter the properties of their construction by moving the vertices of the original triangle
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Using the Distance Formula to find Trapezoidal Area

This activity can be used as a formative assessment review of algebra and coordinate geometry
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Law of Large Numbers: Equal Opportunities

In this activity, students will use the Probability Simulation application to roll a fair die and explore the Law of Large Numbers. They will conduct probability experiments that involve tossing a fair die, graph the results, compare the experimental probability to its theoretical probability and...
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Law of Large Numbers: A Weighty Decision

In this activity, students will explore the Law of Large Numbers. By examining unfair models, they will expand their understanding of probability. They predict the weighting of an unfair model by analyzing experimental data and distributions. They will also formulate and test a hypothesis on the ...
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Angles in a Polygon

Students will expore the interior and exterior angle of 3 polygons and develop the formula to calculate the sum of degrees without the measurement of the angles being taken.
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Permutations and Combinations

This is a quick Navigator lesson that I have used for a homework check at the beginning of class.
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Right Triangle Trig

This is a way to use the TI-Navigator™ to check for an understanding of sin, cos, and tan before you move onto word problems.
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Triangle Inequalities

This activity will help students visualize the properties of triangles stated in the theorems. By dragging the vertices, the students can see that the properties hold regardless of the size of the triangles and which sides are the longest or shortest.
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Dynamic Geometry: Basic Constructions

Students use the Cabri™ Jr. application to draw triangles and construct perpendicular bisectors on the sides of a triangles. They study the properties of a triangle and understand how the measures of angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees.
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Data Analysis: Home Runs in Major League Baseball

This activity provides an opportunity to collect data from the internet, and perform data analysis employing capabilities of the TI-83/84.
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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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Using Vases to Help Understand What Graphs Mean

Students will predict what the graph will look like for different vases as they are filled with water. Then students will use the vases of different shapes and fill them with a set amount of water before each measurement. Students then measure the height of the water in the vase (their y-interc...
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Exploring Platonic Solids

This activity is best at the very beginning of a unit on solids. Students will observe Platonic solids using an interactive website (from the NLVM) projected to the whole class. Students will predict the number of edges, vertices, and faces of the five solids and record their predictions on a Lea...
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Investigating Angle Bisectors

Students will determine that any poin on the angle bisector is equidistant from the sides of the angle.
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Investigate Perpendicular Bisector

Student activity: Discover that any point on the perpendicular bisector of a segment is equidistant from the endpoints of the segment
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Copying an Angle

Explore relationships (including congruence and similarity) among classes of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, make and test conjectures about them, and solve problems involving them. Bullet 1 Construct an angle and find it's degree measure.Bullet 2 Use the Compass tool to replicate t...
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More difficult factoring

To check sign placement for factoring of trinomials when the coefficient in front of the x square is greater than one and the signs are different.
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Grandparents and Special Friends Day

This lesson was designed for our Grandparents and Special Friends day. It can be used for any visitation day, or an open house. The lesson is designed to review percent of a whole and the sector of the circle representing the percentage. Although circle graphs can be created in a spreadsheet prog...
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Exploring Transformations with the Graphing Calculator

After an overview of coordinate notation, students explore transformations including translation, reflection, rotation, and dilation in a coordinate plane. The graphing calculator uses the list editor and functions with lists including the augment command and line graphs of familiar objects, a br...
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Perimeter Pattern

Students will explore a perimeter pattern created using hexagon and triangle pattern block pieces. They will continue the given pattern and use the values obtained to complete a table of values. They will enter the data into the calculator, create a scatter plot and determine the viewing window...
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