Geometry and Measurement
Seventh Grade

STATE GOAL 7: Estimate, make and use measurements of objects, quantities and relationships and determine acceptable levels of accuracy. 
STATE GOAL 9: Use geometric methods to analyze, categorize and draw conclusions about points, lines, planes and space.
Topics Mastered

Resources           

  • Area, circumference, radius, and diameter of circles
  • Plot points on Cartesian coordinate graph
  • Definitions of similar and congruent polygons
  • Estimate metric and customary units
  • Relationship between polygons
  • Measurement of line segment on Cartesian coordinate
  • Angle relationship: vertical, complementary, supplementary, adjacent

 



AAA Math

Virtual Reality Geometry Activities

 

Students will be able to demonstrate:  
  • sketching figures with given measurements with a ruler and protractor
  • classifying similar and congruent polygons using definitions
  • plotting points on Cartesian coordinate graph
  • converting to similar units to solving problems
  • identifying geometric figures
  • determining distance between 2 points on horizontal and vertical number lines
  • identifying, describing, and determining radius and diameter of a circle
  • identifying angle relationships: vertical, complementary, supplementary, and adjacent
 
Topics Introduced
  • Translations, reflections, and rotations
  • Pythagorean Theorem formula, including square roots
  • Side-angle-side, side-side-side, and angle-side-angle triangles
  • Surface area and volume of a prism, pyramid, and cylinder
  • Indirect measurement using similar triangles
  • Estimate linear measurements, area measurements, weights, masses, and capacity measures within customary systems to other measure units
  • Scale drawings
 
Students will practice:  
  • performing translations, reflections, and rotations
  • using Pythagorean Theorem formula, including square roots
  • introducing side-angle-side, angle-side-angle triangles
  • computing surface area and volume of a prism, pyramid, and cylinder
  • identifying 3-D object from net
  • computing indirect measurement using similar triangles
  • converting and estimating linear measurements, area measurements, weights, masses, and capacity measures within customary systems to other measure units
  • solving problems involving scale drawings and maps
 
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