Parallel and perpendicular lines
Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines
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“If your child looks at a set of railway tracks or a window frame, can they point to which lines are parallel (never crossing) and which are perpendicular (meeting at a right angle)?”
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- Activity. Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines
What to notice. Point out horizontal and vertical lines in shapes and real-world contexts • Identify a pair of parallel lines (lines that never meet and are always the same distance apart) • Identify perpendicular lines (lines that meet at a right angle)
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If your child looks at a set of railway tracks or a window frame, can they point to which lines are parallel (never crossing) and which are perpendicular (meeting at a right angle)?
Identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines
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- Point out horizontal and vertical lines in shapes and real-world contexts
- Identify a pair of parallel lines (lines that never meet and are always the same distance apart)
- Identify perpendicular lines (lines that meet at a right angle)
“If your child looks at a set of railway tracks or a window frame, can they point to which lines are parallel (never crossing) and which are perpendicular (meeting at a right angle)?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Geometry
- Age range
- Ages 7–8
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