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Objectives

Students know the definition of similar and why dilation alone is not enough to determine similarity.
Given two similar figures, students describe the sequence of a dilation and a congruence that would map one figure onto the other.

Prior Knowledge

GeometryDilation

45 mins 8.G.A.5 8.G.A.4

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