Midsegment of a triangle worksheet
Join the midpoints of two sides and the segment you get is parallel to the third side and exactly half its length. That works in both directions, which is what the questions swap between.
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How to do these
The third side is
- The midsegment is half of it.
- Half of 18.
- So the midsegment is 9.
The answer is .
Where students go wrong
Halving the wrong one. The midsegment is the short one and the side it is parallel to is the long one, so going from the midsegment back to the side means doubling, not halving.
Also called midsegment theorem or midline of a triangle.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Midsegments, both directions
- Find . — a triangle with its midsegment drawn, labeled 16 →
- Midsegments written in x
- Solve for . — triangle jkl with midsegment st, labeled J, K, L, S, T, 24 →
- On the coordinate plane
- In with , , , is the midpoint of and is the midpoint of . Find and . → ,
- The halves of a side, in x
- is the midpoint of , the midpoint of . and . Find . →
- Which side it is parallel to, extra lengths, halves in x
- Find . — a triangle with its midpoints and midsegments, labeled x, 18, 12 →