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Discovering triangle congruence shortcuts
In this lesson sequence, students will work in pairs using construction to test ‘shortcuts’ to use when proving triangles congruent.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6, P7) Proportional thinking (P6)
- Publisher
- BetterLesson
- Copyright
- © Jessica Uy. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0.
- Keywords
- quadrilateral angle transformation
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