Congruence Shortcuts
Circles
Parallel Lines
Logic
Sketchpad
100
With this shortcut, all you need to prove is that three sides of one triangle are congruent to three sides of another triangle.
What is the SSS Triangle Congruence Conjecture?
100
This is the name for the perimeter of a circle.
What is the circumference?
100
The Transversal
What is the name of the line that cuts through parallel lines?
100
This is the way we denote the general term of a sequence.
What is the nth term?
100
This tool gives you the choice of drawing a Segment, Ray, or a Line.
What is the line tool?
200
With this shortcut, you need to prove that two sides and the angle between them is congruent in both triangles.
What is the Side Angle Side (SAS) Triangle Congruence Conjecture?
200
This is the segment that extends from the center of a circle to its circumference.
What is a radius?
200
This type of reasoning is the process ofobserving data, recognizing patterns, and making generalizations about those patterns.
What is inductive reasoning?
200
This is the menu to use when you want to add angles.
What is the Number menu?
300
AB is congruent to RT. AG is congruent to RO. Angle B is congruent to angle T.
What is true if triangle ABG is congruent to triangle RTO?
300
This is the name for any segment whose endpoints lie on the circumference of a circle.
What is a chord?
300
If it is Thursday, I am thrilled. If I am thrilled, it is Thursday.
Give an example of a statement and its converse.
300
This is the command to slide a polygon sideways.
What is Translate?
400
This is NOT a congruence shortcut, but it is a cool thing to notice when you stretch and shrink triangles in Sketchpad.
What happens when all three angles in one triangle are congruent to all three angles in another triangle?
400
This is a line which touches a circle at one point only.
What is a tangent line?
400
This is the kind of reasoning where you show that certain statements follow logically from agreed-upon assumptions and proven facts.
What is deductive reasoning?
400
This is where you tell Sktechpad that you want it to measure all angles to the nearest thousandth of a degree.
What is Preferences?
500
You would use this triangle congruence shortcut if you had triangles ABC and DEF,and AB was congruent to DE Angle B was congruent to angle E and Angle C was congruent to angle F.
What is the Side-Angle-Angle (SAA) Congruence Conjecture?
500
This is the angle formed between a radius and a point of tangency.
What is a right angle?
500
This is the formula for what are known as the triangular numbers.
What is [n(n+1)]/2?
500
This is what happens when you double click on a point.
What is marking a point?
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