Math Open Ref
This site lets you manipulate similar triangles to explore thier relationships.
Nutshell Math
This video lesson shows how to prove triangles are similar by proving congruence of angles and how to use proportional reasoning to find the length of a missing side.
Lexington Public Schools
This is a great game to play for a review of previously learned concepts.
Cool Math 4 Kids
This site has a good explanation of how to find the sum of the interior angles of any polygon using diagonals and the measure of the interior angles of a triangle.
Get extra practcice constructing congruent triangles.
Another site that lets you explore similar figures, then try them on your own.
Math Tools
This site has links to several of the topice we've worked on in Unit 3.
NLVM
Read the directions on the right. Then find the number of faces, edges, and vertices for each of the solids. Record them on a table in your math journal.
Worsley School
Go here for great descriptions and examples. Click the quiz to test your skills. Your score will be emailed back to you within 2-3 days (Sammy's came back!)
AAA Math
Scroll down to find lessons on classifying triangles by sides and angles, coplementary and supplementary angles, and many other topics.
Free Math Help
This site has more description of how to find the interior angles of any given polygon.
Ambleside
This is a great site if you have gotten rusty about how to use a protractor.
Homeschool Math
This site is full of all kinds of interactive sites.
Shodor Interactive
Practice angle names and finding alternate interor/exterior angles.
Math Open Reference
This is another animated example of how to use a compass and straight edge to make a construction.
AAA Math
A great site for review and practice.
APlusMath
Match geometric shapes to their names.
Free Math Help
You'll see this skill in the challenge section.
AAA Math
Scroll down to find lessons on complementary and supplementary angles as well as lots of good review on other geometry topics.
Cool Math 4 Kids
This site gives discriptions and illustrations of several ways to determine the interior angle measure for any polygon.
Ambleside
This is one of the best online protractor sites I've seen. Great practice!
Read the instructions and examples, then try it on your own.
Regents Prep
Box #1 has problems you can practice with to be sure you're familiar with the terms you'll need for your test. The rest of the problems have great challenge problems for finding angle measures.
Free Math Help
Under Videos, scroll down to Congruent Triangles (proving), and watch to find out how to write a congruency statement.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Construct contruent triangles. Be sure to click the buttons at the bottom to get practice with all three ways.
Free Math Help
This site has links to a variety of sites which will help you with this unit.
Free Math Help
Scroll down to find the movie.
unitedstreaming
If you're curious about how the geometric constructions we're doing in class apply to the real world, this video has some great examples.
Math Open Ref
This site has movies about how to draw all sorts of geometric shapes with the help of a compass. For your assessment, you'll need to be able to copy line segments, angles, triangles, construct parallel lines, and angle bisectors, and bisectors of line segments. Contstructing squares will be a challenge.
Math is Fun
Learn the names and properties of various polygons as well as the formula for calculating the sum of the measure of internal angles.
Proving Parallel Lines
This site gives examples of how you can prove that two lines are parallel. You'll have a question about this on your test!
MathStuff
This is a great site to study lesson 5-1. It gives great examples and explanations of all of the new vocabulary that we're learning about.
One Web
This will give you extra practice in constructing congruent triangles.
Determine which colors will be on opposite faces of a cube when the net is folded.