Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume. Find area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
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A task which requires students are to compare triangles (on a square grid) with the same base and height, and serves as a good precursor to the area of triangles.
A task which requires students are to compare triangles (on a square grid) with the same base and height and without the use of physical models, and serves as a good precursor to the area of triang...
A task where students are required to find the areas of polygons drawn on a grid using abstract methods to help students in preparation for developing general area formulas for parallelograms and t...
This is a task aimed at clearing students' misconceptions around identifying base and height of triangles that look a little different from perfect textbook examples. Also helps in re-introducing p...
The purpose of this task is for students to practice plotting points in the coordinate plane and finding the areas of polygons.
The purpose of this task is to help motivate the usefulness of exponential notation in a geometric context and to give students an opportunity to see that sometimes it is easier to write a number a...
Find the area of parallelograms given base and height.
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Showing that the area of a parallelogram is base times height
A set of 24+ questions created by Khan Academy's Chanda Stanaland Johnson.
Find areas of trapezoids, rhombi, and kites given important lengths.
Find the area of right, acute, and obtuse triangles from a diagram.
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Proving that the area of any triangle is 1/2 b x h
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Definitions of perimeter and area.
If the slice of pizza is from an 18-inch pizza cut into eight pieces, which deal is better when comparing area of pizza and cost? How does the area of a square pizza compare to the area of a circu...