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Points, Lines & Planes

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Points, Lines & Planes
8 min4thMath
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Summary

Math Antics introduces the building blocks of geometry -- points, lines, rays and planes. A clear, animated 8-minute lesson you can drop straight into a grade 4 math block -- pause-friendly, with worked examples on screen.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A few questions to talk through after watching “Points, Lines & Planes.”

  1. How is a ray different from a line?
  2. What is a line segment?
  3. Why are points the starting idea for all of geometry?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: point, line, line segment, ray, plane.

Try it: Draw and label a point, a line, a segment and a ray.