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South Carolina Academic Standards for Mathematics
3rd Grade
Geometry
The student will demonstrate through the mathematical processes an understanding of the connection between the identification of basic attributes and the classification of two-dimensional shapes.

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Lessons (6)

Angles (elementary)

Students learn about classifying angles by their measure and in relation to angles formed by two lines crossed by a transversal.

Audiences: Grades 3-5

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: acute, angles, degrees, intersection, obtuse, rays, right angle

Emerging Patterns

Students consider the patterns that emerge from agent models and geometric fractals.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Geometry, Modeling

Related Topics: agent modeling, fractals, pattern, recursion, self-similarity

Lines, Rays, Line Segments, and Planes

Introduces students to lines, rays, line segments, and planes.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: algebra, axis, coordinate plane, coordinate system, functions, geometry, graph, infinity, lines, number line, planes, rays, segment

Tessellations: Geometry and Symmetry

Examines plane symmetry.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: angles, area, geometry, glides, hexagon, illusion, length, pattern, planes, polygon, rectangles, reflections, regular, rotation, segment, squares, symmetry, tessellations, transformation, translation, triangle

Transformations (Elementary)

This lesson shows elementary students how they can know, for certain, that rigid motions like reflections, rotations, and translations create a shape congruent to the original.

Audiences: Grades 3-5

Primary Subjects: Geometry

Related Topics: congruent, reflections, rotation, transformation, translation

Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

Introduces students to concepts of transformations.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Algebra, Geometry

Related Topics: angles, cartesian coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, dimension, distance, flips, geometry, glides, graph, hexagon, image, parallelogram, pattern, planes, polygon, pre-image, reflections, rotation, squares, symmetry, tessellations, transformation, translation, transpose, triangles

Activities (1)

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Transmographer

Explore the world of translations, reflections, and rotations in the Cartesian coordinate system by transforming squares, triangles and parallelograms. Parameters: Shape, x or y translation, x or y reflection, angle of rotation.

Audiences: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Geometry, Graphs

Related Topics: cartesian coordinate, coordinate plane, coordinate system, flips, geometry, glides, graph, hexagon, image, polygon, pre-image, reflections, rotation, symmetry, transformation, translation, transpose, triangle