Closest to the Pin

Act 1

1. Which ball is closest to the hole?

2. Write down a guess.

Act 2

3. What information would be useful to figure this out?

4. Write down some questions you have in your head right now.

Act 3

Standards

Common Core

• HSG.GPE.B.7 - Use coordinates to compute perimeters of polygons and areas of triangles and rectangles, e.g., using the distance formula.

TEKS

• G.2(B) - derive and use the distance, slope, and midpoint formulas to verify geometric relationships, including congruence of segments and parallelism or perpendicularity of pairs of lines