Mrs. Joy Wolfe's 5th Grade Classroom

5-1 Parallel Lines (Found by Ben Z.)

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.

Constructing Congruent Triangles

Get extra practcice constructing congruent triangles.

Internal Polygon Angles

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.

Protractor Practice

Ambleside

This is one of the best online protractor sites I've seen. Great practice!

Similar Figures With Practice

Read the instructions and examples, then try it on your own.

Interior Angles

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.

Interior Angles of a Polygon

Free Math Help

This site has more description of how to find the interior angles of any given polygon.

Protractor and Angle Review

Ambleside

This is a great site if you have gotten rusty about how to use a protractor.

Similar Triangles

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.

Great Geometry Sites

Free Math Help

This site has links to a variety of sites which will help you with this unit.

Complementary and Supplementary Angles (found by John B.)

AAA Math

Scroll down to find lessons on complementary and supplementary angles as well as lots of good review on other geometry topics.

5-5 Congruent Triangles SSS, SAS, ASA

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Construct contruent triangles. Be sure to click the buttons at the bottom to get practice with all three ways.

5-5 Proving Congruency of Triangles Video

Free Math Help

Under Videos, scroll down to Congruent Triangles (proving), and watch to find out how to write a congruency statement.

Geometry and Measurement Sites

Homeschool Math

This site is full of all kinds of interactive sites.

Constructiong Geometric Shapes

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.

Challenge Esterior Angles of a Polygon

Free Math Help

You'll see this skill in the challenge section.

Finging Interior Angle Measures of Polygons

Cool Math 4 Kids

This site gives discriptions and illustrations of several ways to determine the interior angle measure for any polygon.

5-1 More Parallel Lines (Found by Sammy)

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!)

5-1 Parallel Lines Cut by Transversals (Found by Ben Z.)

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.

Faces of a Cube

Determine which colors will be on opposite faces of a cube when the net is folded.

Various Geometry Sites

Math Tools

This site has links to several of the topice we've worked on in Unit 3.

Constructing Triangles With Given Measures (A Sebastian P. find)

One Web

This will give you extra practice in constructing congruent triangles.

5-1 Parallel Lines Cut by Transversals Movie (found by Ben Z)

Free Math Help

Scroll down to find the movie.

Platonic Solids

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.