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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Building with Triangles

Triangles


Students will use triangles to make shapes by putting two or three isosceles right triangles together edge to edge.





Students will be able to represent shapes using manipulatives, drawings, and words.


Some of the vocabulary used in this lesson:


Congruent Shapes-Shapes that are the same shape and the same size


Vertex-the point at which the sides of an angle meet (corner, 2 or more corners are called vertices)


Right Angle-a 90 degree angle between two perpendicular lines


Line of Symmetry-when two halves of a figure mirror each other across a line


Area-The extent of a surface or plane figure as measured in square units


Perimeter-the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure (measure each side of a shape and add it together to get the perimeter)


Building with four triangles is the next lesson. Students will do the same activities except with four triangles.



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