Description
Solving special right triangles is more fun with this customizable mystery scavenger hunt. In this activity, students solve 30-60-90 and 45-45-90 triangles to solve a mystery!
Your students will practice using the special right triangle shortcuts as they complete this engaging activity. Students will love solving the mystery and won’t even realize how much they are learning!
Choose how you would like to use these activities in your class:
- As a Scavenger Hunt
- As Independent Activities – perfect for independent learning, small groups, or absentees
- As a Digital Activity – ready for distance learning
In the print versions, you are able to customize the TITLE, the SUSPECTS, the WEAPONS, and the LOCATIONS to create a unique mystery activity that is perfectly suited to your students! In the digital version, you are able to customize the TITLE. (Formatting limitations of Google Slides prevent you from being able to customize all fields.)
Here’s what you’ll get:
- An activity with 20 right triangles.
- Instructions for use as a SCAVENGER HUNT, an INDEPENDENT Activity, and a DIGITAL Activity
- THREE sets of clue cards in Color and in B&W. Sets include answers given as:
- Fractions with RATIONALIZED denominators
- Fractions with UN-RATIONALIZED denominators
- Decimal equivalents
- THREE versions of independent activity with answers in the listed forms with all of the information students need to complete the activity outside of the classroom
- A link to the digital activity in Google Slides that is easy to assign and easy to grade!
- Answer key
