U3L8 Are They All Similar?

In this lesson, students conjecture and reason about whether all shapes in a certain category must be similar, such as whether all circles, or all rectangles, are similar. Then they prove that all equilateral triangles are similar, and all circles are similar (MP3). The proof that all circles are similar is used again in a subsequent unit, when it is used to rigorously define angle measure, connect angle measure to arc length, and connect degrees to radians. Students get a chance to apply the theorem they proved in previous lessons, that if two triangles have all pairs of corresponding angles congruent and all pairs of corresponding side lengths in the same proportion, then the triangles are similar. This simplifies the proof that all equilateral triangles are congruent.  This activity includes lesson summary videos and practice problems

By JOEL NELSON