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  2. Similarity (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Corresponding sides of similar polygons are in proportion, and corresponding angles of similar polygons have the same measure. Two congruent shapes are similar, with a scale factor of 1. However, some school textbooks specifically exclude congruent triangles from their definition of similar triangles by insisting that the sizes must be ...

  3. Self-similarity - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a self-similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself (i.e., the whole has the same shape as one or more of the parts). Many objects in the real world, such as coastlines , are statistically self-similar: parts of them show the same statistical properties at many scales. [ 2 ]

  4. Parable of the Polygons - Wikipedia

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    The goal of Parable of the Polygons was for readers to "learn to demand diversity". [5] People are represented by abstract shapes because marking their races and genders would be "really weird" and "have the unfortunate implication that [the races and genders] are binary and immutable". [7] A triangle was chosen because it appears in Hart's ...

  5. Instructional scaffolding - Wikipedia

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    Instructional scaffolding is the support given to a student by an instructor throughout the learning process. This support is specifically tailored to each student; this instructional approach allows students to experience student-centered learning, which tends to facilitate more efficient learning than teacher-centered learning.

  6. Congruence (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In the School Mathematics Study Group system SAS is taken as one (#15) of 22 postulates. AAS (angle-angle-side): If two pairs of angles of two triangles are equal in measurement, and a pair of corresponding non-included sides are equal in length, then the triangles are congruent. AAS is equivalent to an ASA condition, by the fact that if any ...

  7. Pygmalion in the Classroom - Wikipedia

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    [4] A meta-analysis indicates that the magnitude of the effect of inducing IQ-related expectancies in teachers is reduced by the amount of time teachers have spent getting to know their students prior to expectancy induction: [5] although Raudenbush found the effect to be supported in general, it is much stronger when expectancy is induced at ...

  8. Cross section (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A cross section of a polyhedron is a polygon. The conic sections – circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas – are plane sections of a cone with the cutting planes at various different angles, as seen in the diagram at left.

  9. Constructible polygon - Wikipedia

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    A regular polygon with n sides can be constructed with ruler, compass, and angle trisector if and only if =, where r, s, k ≥ 0 and where the p i are distinct Pierpont primes greater than 3 (primes of the form +). [8]: Thm. 2 These polygons are exactly the regular polygons that can be constructed with Conic section, and the regular polygons ...