Inequalities in one triangle worksheet
Sides and angles run in the same order: the biggest angle is opposite the longest side, every time. So ordering one orders the other, and the whole question is reading which side faces which angle.
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How to do these
- Side a faces angle A, and so on.
- The angles go 40, 60, 80.
- So the sides go in the same order.
The answer is .
Where students go wrong
Matching a side to the angle next to it. Each side is named for the angle across from it, not the ones it touches, and getting that backwards reverses the whole list.
Also called ordering sides and angles, largest angle largest side or triangle inequalities.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Ordering sides and angles
- In a triangle, , and . List the sides shortest first. →
- Name the largest or smallest
- In , , , . Name the largest angle. →
- The range an angle can take
- In , is the shortest side and . What values can take? →
- Ordering, read off a drawing
- List the angles from smallest to largest. — a triangle with its vertices named, labeled 12, 7, 11, X, Y, Z →