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Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make? Aligned to Common Core State Standard: 7.G.2
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strips.pdf
black_and_white_strips.pdf
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Standards
Draw (freehand, with ruler and protractor, and with technology) geometric shapes with given conditions. Focus on constructing triangles from three measures of angles or sides, noticing when the conditions determine a unique triangle, more than one triangle, or no triangle.
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Nice investigation for exploring side lengths of triangles.