Introduction

City roads are great examples of lines that are cut by a transversal. Consider the city or town where you live. Sometimes there will be a road named Main Street. When the layout of the land will allow, many roads called "streets" are parallel while other roads known as "avenues" intersect the streets forming blocks. The intersections form angle relationships.

 

Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Find the measure of angles formed by two parallel lines and a transveral

Enduring Understandings

  • If we know the measure of one angle formed when a pair of parallel lines is cut by a transversal, then we can find the measures of the other angles.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Geometry standards: Geometry Standard 1.

 

Next Page