Resources and materials for courses developed through
the Partnership for Excellence project
Resources and materials
for courses developed through
the Partnership for Excellence project
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Rediscovering Geometry |
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Cooperative Group Activities
Unit 1: Introduction to Geometer's Sketchpad
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Beginning to Use the Tools
Activity 2: Similarity of Segments
Activity 3: Making Scripts
Activity 4: Constructing and Dilating Angles
Activity 5: Bisecting Angles
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 2: Using Manipulatives for Constructions
Activity 1: Constructions with the Geoboard
Activity 2: Constructions with the MiraUnit 3: The Triangle and Its Special Lines
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: The Medians of a Triangle
Activity 2: The Angle Bisectors of a Triangle
Activity 3: The Altitudes of a Triangle
Activity 4: The Perpendicular Bisectors of a Triangle's Sides
Activity 5: Related Problems
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 4: Exploring the Geometry of Quadrilaterals
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Similarity of Quadrilaterals
Activity 2: Connecting Midpoints of a Quadrilateral's Adjacent Sides
Activity 3: Kites and Cyclic Quadrilaterals
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 5: Transformations with the Mira
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity: Transformations using the Mira
File containing activity and prerequisite listUnit 6: Transformations with the Geometer's Sketchpad
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Reflections with the Sketchpad
Activity 2: Translations with the Sketchpad
Activity 3: Rotations with the Sketchpad
Activity 4: Compositions of Reflections
Activity 5: Dilations with the Sketchpad
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 7: Exploring Area on the Geoboard
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activities 1, 2, 3: Areas of Parallelograms
Activities 4, 5, 6: Areas of Triangles
Activities 7, 8: Areas of Trapezoids and Kites
Activity 9: Areas of Irregular Polygons
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 8: The Pythagorean Theorem
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Grid Squares and the Pythagorean Theorem
Activity 2: The General Pythagorean Relationship
File containing all unit activitiesUnit 9: Tessellating the Plane
Prerequisites and Objectives
Activity 1: Regular Tessellations
Activity 2: Other Tessellations
File containing all unit activities
