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Up For Change?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore similar objects. They participate in a series of hands-on, multimedia and online activities to examine how the edge length affects the angle measures, perimeters and areas of similar regular polygons. Students find the...
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Volume and Surface Area: Which Is More?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the volume and surface area of three dimensional figures. Through the use of video, students discover three dimensional shapes, their uses in real-life applications, and methods used to calculate their volume and surface...
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Changing Twines: Exploring Area and Perimeter

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review formulas for area and perimeter in quadrilaterals. They arrange pre-cut twine on a centimeter graph paper to create non-congruent quadrilaterals. They calculate the perimeter and area of each form.
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Area: It's What's on the INSIDE That Counts!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a series of hands-on, online and multimedia activities that examine the concept of area. They view clips from the animated series Math Monsters and discuss the purpose of area and how it is used in the real...
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The Internet Pizza Server - Creating Your Own Pizza

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars create their own pizza, "order" it from the Internet, and see digitized versions. They calculate the area of various size pizzas in order to do cost analysis to determine best buys.
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Length, Perimeter and Area

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationship
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History and the Approximations of pi

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate Pi. In this mathematics lesson plan, learners discuss the history of Pi and determine how the approximation of Pi was discovered.
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Surface Area's

For Students 6th - 7th
Use this area learning exercise to help learners find the surface area of the triangle and the trapezoid. Pupils use the given formulas to help them find the area.
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Luxury Hotel

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Give the most important people watching the Olympics a beautiful place to stay! Learners create a luxury hotel for the games using AppleWorks, fractions, and their knowledge of perimeter and area. The math lesson includes resource links...
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Area and Perimeter of Rectangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Discover the difference between area and perimeter. Learners are grouped in twos and threes and each group has one advanced/gifted learner to serve as the peer helper. They receive manipulatives to help them determine the area and...
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Perimeter and Area

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students calculate the perimeter and area of given figures and lengths.
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Does the Area of the Quadrilateral Change?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars study area and quadrilaterals. In this multiplication and area lesson, students use Polystrip models to change rectangles to form different parallelograms. Young scholars find the area of the models use a Geometer...
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Area and dimensions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study the concepts of area and dimensions. In this area and dimensions lesson, 6th graders work in pairs to complete the handout included that illustrates ways to represent various numbers. Students also determine what...
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Coordinate Planes - Area of Triangle

For Students 9th - 12th
For this online math worksheet, high schoolers find the area of a variety of triangles given the measurements of their vertices. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into...
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XY Coordinate Planes - Area of Trapezoids

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math worksheet, students calculate the area of a variety of trapezoids. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching tool!
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Area of Shaded Region (rectangles and triangles)

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math learning exercise, students determine the area of shaded regions within rectangles and triangles. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into...
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Rectangle & Square Problems - Length, Width, Perimeter and Area

For Students 9th - 12th
For this online math worksheet, students determine the length and width of given rectangles given their area. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A...
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Area of Shaded Regions that involve Circles

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math worksheet, students determine the area of shaded regions within a circle. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching...
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Area and Perimeter of Rectangles Worksheets (I)

For Students 6th - 12th
In this online math worksheet, students find the area and perimeter of rectangles. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific teaching tool!
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Trapezoid Problems - base1, base2, height and area

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math worksheet, learners must find the missing measurement in a variety of trapezoids. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific...
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Magdeburg Hemispheres

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students investigate whether air exerts a force. In this physics lesson, students calculate air pressure using force and area information.
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Finding Area and Perimeter of Rectangles and Squares Given Vertices

For Students 8th - 10th
In this area and perimeter worksheet, students find area and perimeter of rectangle and squares given the coordinates of the vertices.  Grids are provided for these six problems.
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Area Of Irregular Shapes

For Students 4th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students complete 13 problems where they find the area of irregular shapes where some of the measurements are given. Examples are given in this well-designed worksheet.
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Area of Squares and Rectangles

For Students 5th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students complete 16 problems where they find the area of squares and rectangles with whole and decimal numbers. This worksheet would be an excellent homework assignment.