document.write( "Question 519860: In proofs, My 9th grader has difficulty \"seeing\" the correct triangles to solve for, especially when they are overlapping or a detour proof. Any suggestions for helping him through this? Thanks. \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Suppose you have this figure, and you wanted him to \"see\" one of \r\n" );
document.write( "the triangles.  You could take a red pen and mark over it as in\r\n" );
document.write( "the second figure. If you don't want to mess up the original drawing,\r\n" );
document.write( "you could get a transparent plastic sheet, place it on top of \r\n" );
document.write( "the paper, get a colored marker and trace the triangle that you wanted\r\n" );
document.write( "to point out on the plastic sheet in red.  Or you could do as the third \r\n" );
document.write( "figure shows, redraw the triangle outside the figure the same shape \r\n" );
document.write( "and size of the triangle he is to \"see\". Eventually I think his eye \r\n" );
document.write( "will become trained so he can \"see\" the triangle.\r\n" );
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