Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
Two angles ABC and XYZ are floating in a box so that AB//XY and BC//YZ.
Prove that the two angles are equal.
Games. Real world. Congruence. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Parallel lines. Visualising. Discussion. Working systematically. Parallelograms. Cubes.
Published June 2004.
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