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Angle Pair Relationships with Parallel Lines - An Exploration!

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Overview:: This exploration handout provides students with the opportunity to explore the relationships between angles formed by two parallel lines and a transversal. After determining whether angle pairs are congruent or supplementary, students can apply their new learning to find missing angle measures.
Type of Material:: The actual material is basically a simple text document, but it is intended to be used as an exploration/activity tool for individual students or groups.
Recommended Uses:: Individual, small group or classroom learning activity.
Technical Requirements:: Browser goes to pdf file that is available on Google Drive.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: To explore relationships between angles formed by two parallel lines and a transversal.
Target Student Population:: High school geometry
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Some basic geometry skills

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Strengths:: The material is a straightforward focused activity for students to explore the angle relationships created by two parallel lines and a transversal. It is intended as a hands-on activity for individuals, small groups or classroom settings. It includes identification of named types of angle pairs, opportunities to draw conclusions, and the use of elementary algebra to solve for unknown angles.
Concerns:: Very narrow single topic could be more useful if additional topics were available in a similar format. There are references to a specific chapter and lesson of an unknown text which could be confusing to students.

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The material focuses on a single topic and therefore is simple to use.

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There are no definitions or explanations of concepts– either built-in or by using appropriate external links. (They may be in the unreferenced text.)

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Strengths:: The site is based on single topic, linear, and therefore, it is very easy to use. Instructions are very simple and clear.
Concerns:: The single page is really too simple – but a larger collection of similar simple pages could be useful to students and teachers.