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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Area of Irregular Figures

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Painting an irregular figure can be tricky if we don't know the exact area. This interactive presentation reveals that irregular figures can be broken into smaller, simple figures that use the area formulas. Go through two examples,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measurement: Lesson 2

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders find the perimeter of a geometric shape by adding the lengths of the sides. They find the area of a square or rectangle by counting square units. Students use multiplication to find the area of a rectangle. They estimate...
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Irregular Polygon Centroids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore finding the centroid of an irregular polygon by finding the mean of the coordinates of the polygon's vertices. Further, students find the centroid given that...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Counting Different 2 D Shapes Within Simple Composite Figures

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on how to dientify various two dimensional shapes within a composite figure.