This is a two-part activity and will most likely take two 50 - 55 minute class periods – one day per part. Part I (Day one) is a hands-on activity that allows students to work together on computers to discover the proportional relationship between a pair of similar right triangles. Ideally, you will have a class set of computers or a computer lab you could use for this lesson. If you don't have access to these resources you can run a demonstration on one computer and project it for the class and have students come up to manipulate the triangles.
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8.G.B.7 HSG-SRT.A.2 HSG-SRT.B.5 HSG-SRT.C.8
Math Practices
MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6
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