Basic Compass & Straightedge Constructions

• Bisecting a line segment

• Constructing an equilateral triangle

• Constructing an angle bisector

• Constructing parallel lines (Rhombus method)

• Constructing a perpendicular line through a point

• Copying an angle

• Constructing a triangle by SSS

• Circumscribing a triangle

Steve Kifowit Prairie State College Chicago Heights, IL 60411 7-10-2002