Master Teacher lessons
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Any three sides lengths can't form a triangle? NOPE! Students will use straws of various lengths to investigate this theorem.
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Cell phones have made communication exponentially easier, and they have done the same for crime investigation!
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Can you write about angles?
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Constructions! This lesson is a hands on investigation to what makes a unique triangle.
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With the focal point being on the mathematical practices, student’s will become math detectives searching for evidence to solve mathematical mysteries.
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Students will take a step back and recall all the relationships between angle pairs and triangles.
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Test! Today's lesson allows students to show what they have learned about relationships in geometric figures.
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It is empowering and fun to learn how to draw prisms and pyramids.
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Students reflect on what they know about angles.
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Students use known measures of complementary, supplementary, and right angles to find the measure of an unknown angle.
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Students brainstorm vocabulary terms about angles and write definitions of those terms.
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What is the difference between supplementary and complementary?
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Students use triangles formed by diagonals of a polygon to discover the sum of the measures of the angles inside a polygon.
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Students apply their knowledge of angle vocabulary.
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What do you know now that you didn't know then?
