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Geometry, grade 7

Seventh-grade geometry.Subjects

The topics, in order:

  • angles: naming, comparing and measuring them; the angle bisector; adjacent and vertical angles;
  • the angles of a triangle and of a quadrilateral; the equilateral, isosceles and right triangle;
  • congruent shapes and transformations;
  • perimeter and area: the rectangle, the parallelogram, the triangle and the trapezoid;
  • the cube and the box: nets, surface area and volume.

There are two kinds of lessons:

  • Learning lessons – an explanation, solved examples and a few questions to try;
  • Practice lessons – questions only.

How the page works: Using a page.

  1. AnglesLearningA vertex and two arms; naming an angle; acute, right, obtuse and straight angles; comparing angles.
  2. Measuring anglesLearningDegrees; measuring an angle with a protractor and which scale to read; estimating before measuring; drawing an angle of a given size.
  3. The angle bisector; sum and difference of anglesLearningA ray that splits an angle: the whole angle is the sum of the two parts, and one part is the difference; the angle bisector splits it into two equal halves.
  4. Adjacent and vertical anglesLearningAdjacent angles – together 180°; vertical angles – equal, and why; angles around a point – together 360°.
  5. Practice: anglesPracticeKinds of angles, reading a protractor, the angle bisector, the sum and difference of angles, adjacent and vertical angles and angles around a point.
  6. The angles of a triangleLearningThe angles of a triangle add up to 180°: finding a missing angle, and the kinds of triangles by their angles and by their sides.
  7. Special trianglesLearningThe isosceles triangle and its base angles, the equilateral triangle, the right-angled triangle – legs and hypotenuse – and the right isosceles triangle.
  8. The angles of a quadrilateralLearningA diagonal cuts a quadrilateral into two triangles, so the angles of a quadrilateral add up to 360°: missing angles in a rectangle, a kite-shaped quadrilateral and any quadrilateral.
  9. Practice: the angles of a triangle and a quadrilateralPracticeThe sum of the angles of a triangle and a quadrilateral; the isosceles, equilateral and right-angled triangle, with adjacent and vertical angles.
  10. Congruent shapes and transformationsLearningCongruent shapes – corresponding sides and angles – and the transformations that move a shape onto a congruent one: translation, reflection in a line and rotation about a point, on squared paper.
  11. Perimeter and areaLearningPerimeter – the length around a shape; area – the number of unit squares covering it; the area of the rectangle and the square; the same area with different perimeters; a missing side; shapes made of rectangles.
  12. The area of the parallelogram and the triangleLearningThe height to a side, also outside the shape; the parallelogram: a side times the height to it; the triangle: half a parallelogram; any side can be the base; the right triangle.
  13. The area of the trapezoid and composite shapesLearningThe trapezoid: bases, legs and height; two trapezoids make a parallelogram; the area of a composite shape – by cutting or by completing; the area of a shape on squared paper.
  14. Practice: perimeter and areaPracticeThe perimeter and area of the rectangle, square, parallelogram, triangle and trapezoid; a missing side or height; composite shapes and squared paper; painting a wall, tiling a floor, a garden.
  15. The cube and the boxLearningA solid; the box and the cube: faces, edges and vertices; drawing a box; nets of a cube and of a box.
  16. The surface area and the volume of a boxLearningThe surface area – the area of the net; the volume – how many unit cubes fill the box; cm³ and litres; a missing edge from the volume.
  17. Practice: the cube and the boxPracticeNets of a cube and of a box, opposite faces, surface area and volume, litres, a missing edge and problems from life.
  18. Review: geometry, grade 7PracticeQuestions from the whole course: angles, triangles and quadrilaterals, congruent shapes, perimeter and area, the cube and the box.
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