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Welcome to Activity Area C!

Activity C-1
U
se the website Cool Math to research a profession or career that uses the skills related to similar or congruent figures. As you are browsing the website, take some notes on the ways that a certain career uses these concepts of similar or congruent figures.

Create a creative poster or brochure advertising this profession, including the ways that similar or congruent figures are used in this profession. Your poster or brochure should be colorful and neat and include illustrations or photographs representing the ways in which the profession uses these skills.

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Activity C-2
C
reate a PowerPoint presentation teaching your classmates one of the elements (a, b, or c) from this standard. The PowerPoint should be at least three slides. Be creative and take advantage of the great capabilities of PowerPoint - backgrounds, transitions, animations, etc. Make sure that you include a quiz or assignment of some sort to assess the knowledge of your classmates.

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Activity C-3
C
reate a 10-question quiz that would demonstrate mastery of this standard. Your quiz may be multiple choice, short answer, or a combination of the two. You may choose to include vocabulary along with computation questions. Your quiz should be typed, 12-point standard font. Make sure to include an answer key and the scratch work that explains your answers. Your answer key can be hand-written.

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Standards

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Last updated on 6 December, 2010 by Erica C. Boswell.