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Geometric Training Drill

Mr. Tanner is a soccer coach and a math teacher at his school. For soccer practice,
he designed a training drill for his players. The running pattern is shown above.
Each student is represented by a letter, and his running path is shown by a colored
line. Mr. Tanner later used the same training drill plan in his math class. He noticed
that the plan had many different geometrical features, and he asked his students to
identify them. Just like Mr. Tanner’s students, you are going to identify geometric
features in the training drill plan.

Part 1
Directions: Identify the following geometric shapes and lines in Mr. Tanner’s drill
pattern. You can identify the shapes and lines by either printing and marking up a
copy of Mr. Tanner’s drill pattern or by describing which players’ paths create the
shapes. Note: The shapes that you identify may have other lines running through
them.

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 a pair of parallel lines
 a pair of perpendicular lines
 a parallelogram
 a rectangle
 a right triangle
 a trapezoid
 an obtuse triangle

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Part 2
Directions: Draw a new training drill plan for Mr. Tanner. You can use the rays in
the table or draw your own. Your plan must include the seven geometric features
that are included in Mr. Tanner’s plan. Explain your placement of the players. After
you create your plan, make three copies. Highlight and label the triangles on the
first copy, the polygons on the second copy, and the lines on the third copy.

Player Ray
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H

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