Lesson 7

In previous lessons, students practiced coming up with sequences of rigid motions and dilations to take one figure onto a given similar figure. In this lesson, students use rigid transformations and dilations to reason about and make generalizations about similarity of triangles and other types of figures. Students build on the work they did in earlier lessons, using their repeated reasoning to come up with a generalized sequence of rigid motions and dilations that they can justify will always take two triangles with congruent angles and proportional sides onto one another (MP8). 

Technology isn’t required for this lesson, but there are opportunities for students to choose to use appropriate technology to solve problems. We recommend making technology available.

For the Invisible Triangles activity: Separate the transformer cards from the triangle cards and give each group one transformer card and one set of three triangle cards. If feasible, provide each group of 2 with a folder or other divider so students can’t see each other’s desktops.