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8.G Area of a Trapezoid
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Quadrilateral $ABCD$ is a trapezoid, $AD = 15$, $AB = 50$, $BC = 20$, and the altitude is 12. What is the area of the trapezoid?...

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03/17/2013
8.G A rectangle in the coordinate plane
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Below is a quadrilateral in the coordinate plane: Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the lengths of sides $\overline{AB}$, $\overline{BC}$, $\overline...

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03/13/2013
8.G Bird and Dog Race
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Doug is a dog, and his friend Bert is a bird. They live in Salt Lake City, where the streets are 1/16 miles apart and arranged in a square grid. They a...

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8.G Circle Sandwich
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: A square is inscribed in a circle which is inscribed in a square as shown below. Note that the vertices of the inner square meet the midpoints of the o...

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09/08/2013
8.G Cutting a rectangle into two congruent triangles
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Below is a picture of rectangle $ABCD$ with diagonal $AC$. Draw the image of triangle $ACD$ when it is rotated $180^\circ$ about vertex $D$. Call $A'$ ...

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03/16/2013
8.G Finding isosceles triangles
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Mrs. Lu has asked students in her class to find isosceles triangles whose vertices lie on a coordinate grid. For each student example below, explain wh...

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08/05/2013
8.G Finding the distance between points
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08/06/2015
8.G, G-CO Origami Silver Rectangle
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: This task examines the mathematics behind an origami construction of a rectangle whose sides have the ratio $(\sqrt{2}:1)$. Such a rectangle is called ...

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10/14/2013
8.G, G-GPE, G-SRT, G-CO Is this a rectangle?
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Is the quadrilateral with vertices $(-6, 2)$, $(-3,6)$, $(9, -3)$, $(6,-7)$ a rectangle? Explain....

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8.G, G-SRT Points from Directions
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Point $B$ is due east of point $A$. Point $C$ is due north of point $B$. The distance between points $A$ and $C$ is $10\sqrt 2$ meters, and $\angle BAC...

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03/29/2013
8.G Partitioning a hexagon
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Find a way to partition a regular hexagon into 2 congruent figures. Explain how you know the 2 figures are congruent. Find many ways to partition a reg...

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03/16/2013
8.G Point Reflection
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: The point in the $x$-$y$ plane with coordinates $(1000,2012)$ is reflected across the line $y=2000$. What are the coordinates of the reflected point?...

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8.G Similar Triangles I
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08/06/2015
8.G  Similar Triangles II
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8.G Spiderbox
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: A spider walks on the outside of a box from point A to B to C to D and finally to point E as shown in the picture below. Draw a net of the box and map ...

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11/25/2013
8.G Sum of angles in a triangle
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Suppose $\ell$ and $m$ are parallel lines with $Q$ a point on $\ell$ and $P$ a point on $m$ as pictured below: Also labelled in the picture is the midp...

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8.G Two Triangles' Area
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Let $A$ be the area of a triangle with sides of length 25, 25, and 30. Let $B$ be the area of a triangle with sides of length 25, 25, and 40. Find $A/B...

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05/29/2013
8-NS Calculating the Square Root of 2
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This task is intended for instructional purposes so that students can become familiar and confident with using a calculator and understanding what it can and cannot do. This task gives an opportunity to work on the notion of place value (in parts (b) and (c)) and also to understand part of an argument for why the square root of two is not a rational number.

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11/13/2012
8.NS Converting Repeating Decimals to Fractions
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Leanne makes the following observation: I know that \frac{1}{11} = 0.0909\ldots where the pattern 09 repeats forever. I also know that \frac{1}{9} = 0....

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8.NS Estimating Square Roots
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This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Without using the square root button on your calculator, estimate $\sqrt{800}$ as accurately as possible to $2$ decimal places. (Hint: It is worth noti...

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05/01/2012