Lesson Plan

Name Francesca Scarmato

Lesson #, Lesson Title Lesson #4, Angle Addition Postulate
Date and Day of the Week Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Grade Level and Class Grade 10; Geometry
Period and Length Period 3, 60 min.
Materials Needed Binder/Notebook, pen/pencils, graphing calculator (optional),
classwork handout, homework handout, exit ticket
Standards and Objectives
Standards:
 7.G.B.5 – Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a
multi-step problem to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure.
Learning Objectives: Use concrete, specific and measurable (observable) learning objectives
for the lesson. What will the student be able to do?
Students will be able to identify the measures of unknown angles through the rule of angle addition
postulates based on their background knowledge of supplementary, complementary, and adjacent
angles.

Central Focus:
Students will be able to use angle relationships to find measures of angles.
Academic Language Demands:
 In order for the students to be intellectually engaged in this lesson they must understand math
terms, such as: angle, vertex, side, line, line segment, point, ray, endpoint, bisect
 The specific terms students need to support learning of the objective(s) for this lesson are:
vertex, types of angles (right angle, acute angle, obtuse angle, straight angle), complementary
angles, supplementary angles, adjacent angles.
 Students will need to be able to use all forms of language, such as: reading, writing, listening,
and speaking, in order to participate in learning tasks and demonstrate their learning for this
lesson.
Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks that Support Student Needs
Time Action Rationale

Launch (Motivation) To assess what the students

What can you Do Now: have retained from the
8 min lessons they have learned
∠LMN and ∠PQR are complementary angles. Draw in the previous week and
and find the measures of the angles when m∠LMN = yesterday’s lesson on
(4x-2)° and m∠PQR = (9x+1)°. adjacent and vertical
angles.

x = 7  ∠LMN = 26° and

∠PQR = 64°
Are the two angles adjacent angles? Are they vertical
angles? Can you identify linear pairs based on your No, no, no!
drawn angles? Explain.
 Instructional Procedure (Explore) Based on the review of
adding two angles to equal
8 min Slide 1: Angle Addition Postulates 90° (also known as a right
If B is the interior of ∠AOC, then m∠AOB + m∠BOC = angle and a complementary
m∠AOC. angle), within the “Do
Now”, the topic of angle
addition postulates can be
connected to the similar
rule of segment addition
So, if m∠AOB = 20° and m∠BOC = 30°, then m∠AOC = postulates.
50°.
The definition of angle
What type of angle would ∠AOC be classified as? [acute addition postulates can be
angle] better understood through a
simple example.

Students will have a better

Slide 2: Let’s Try It…
10 min understanding of the rule
1. Find m∠PQR if m∠PQM = 23° and m∠MQR = 50°. of angle addition postulates
by building their
mathematical concept and
R skills of the topic through
solving scaffolded
M examples.

1. m∠PQR = 73°
P Q

2. Find m∠HIW if m∠WIJ = 10x, m∠HIJ = 145°, and 2. x = 11

m∠HIW = 2x + 13.
m∠HIW = 35°

Students should be able to

5 min Slide 3: Quick Review
recall how to solve for a
What should you be thinking of when solving for the missing angle by using the
missing angle? partition postulate.

PART + PART = WHOLE

OR
 WHOLE – PART = PART

*Also known as the partition postulate. *

20 min Structured Practice and Application Students will be able to

Read and answer each question with complete work. apply what they have
learned through the
1. m∠GHC = 70° and m∠CHI = 105°. Find m∠GHI. instructional procedure to
various scaffolded
problems in solving for
missing angles based on
the rule of angle addition
postulates as well as the
partition postulate.
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After Structured Practice Assessment To determine if students

can exhibit their
5 min Exit Ticket: Quick doodles Doodle comprehension of today’s
Draw two or three concepts presented in the lesson lesson through the
may include words or numbers. completion of an exit ticket
as an informal assessment.
Homework Handout

Closure

Exit Ticket

Homework Handout
Name: Date:

Algebra 3/4 – Angles Addition Postulate Homework

Directions: Answer each question fully with complete work.

1. What is the definition of the angle addition postulate?

2. What is PART + PART = WHOLE also known as?

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.
Name: Date:

Algebra 3/4 – Angles Addition Postulate Classwork

1. m∠GHC = 70° and m∠CHI = 105°. Find m∠GHI. 2.

3. 4.

5. 6.