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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Area of Tangram Pieces

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Mathematicians calculate the area of a tangram piece without using formulas. They use a geometry journal to record activities during this lesson. They make a set of tangrams and use them to compute area. They use what they discover to...
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Lesson Plan
Hotchalk

Triangle Sum Theorem

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Your visual geometry learners will appreciate triangle drawings as they model the triangle sum theorem and algebraically solve to find the missing interior angle in a triangle. Practice problems increase in complexity and vary in their...
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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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Area of Right Triangles

For Students 8th - 10th
In this are of right triangles worksheet, students read graphs and explore congruent triangles.  They find the area of rectangles and of right triangles.  This one-page worksheet contains explanations, instructions, and 8 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Trigonometry to Find Area

For Students 11th - 12th
In this Algebra II/Trigonometry instructional activity, students use trigonometry to determine the area of a triangle or a parallelogram.  The one page instructional activity contains ten problems.  Answers are not provided. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Area of Equilateral Triangles

For Students 6th - 10th
In this area of equilateral triangles worksheet, students find the area of equilateral triangles written out in word problems. Students complete the area for 4 triangles.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Perimeter and Area of Polygonal Regions in the Cartesian Plane

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How many sides does that polygon have? Building directly from lesson number eight in this series, learners now find the area and perimeter of any polygon on the coordinate plane. They decompose the polygons into triangles and use Green's...
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Activity
Education Development Center

Finding Triangle Vertices

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Where in the world (or at least in the coordinate plane) is the third vertex? Given two coordinate points for the vertices of a triangle, individuals find the location of the third vertex. They read an account of fictional...
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Activity
Curated OER

Finding the Area of Polygons

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders are exposed to finding the area of polygons by decomposing figures and recomposing them into rectangles. This strategy allows children to expand on their prior knowledge of constructing shapes by rearranging parts into...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Heron's or Hero's Formula for Area of Scalene Triangle

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Heron's or Hero's formula for area of scalene triangle worksheet, students solve 4 word problems using the formula given for area of a triangle.
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Lesson Plan
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Illustrative Mathematics

Equal Area Triangles on the Same Base II

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A deceptively simple question setup leads to a number of attack methods and a surprisingly sophisticated solution set in this open-ended problem. Young geometers of different strengths can go about defining the solutions graphically,...
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Assessment11:36
Mathed Up!

Area of Compound Shapes

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Scholars learn how to determine the area of compound shapes by finding the areas of the basic shapes that make it up. Pupils find the areas by adding areas together or subtracting them.
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Worksheet
Doing Maths

Area of Various Shapes

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Find the area of triangles, rectangles, and parallelograms using this metric worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Real-World Area Problems

For Students 7th Standards
Not all structures take the shape of a polygon. The 21st lesson in a series of 29 shows young mathematicians they can create polygons out of composite shapes. Once they deconstruct the structures, they find the area of the composite figure.
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Instructional Video15:48
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Flipped Math

Sectors and Segments

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
It's a piece of pizza! Pupils learn about a sector of a circle as a slice of the circle and determine how to find its area. Scholars continue to find out how to calculate the segment of a circle based on the sector's area. At the end,...
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Surface Area of Three-Dimensional Figures

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Lateral area and surface area are simple concepts, but calculating them is not as easy! Using formulas, learners calculate lateral area and surface area for the same three-dimensional figures. The resource discusses the formula variables...
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Circles in Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Challenge the class with inscribed circles in triangles. The assessment task requests class members use their knowledge of circles and right triangles to prove two triangles are congruent. They go on to utilize their knowledge of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Area of Triangle

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this area worksheet, students read and problem solve the area of 8 triangles. Students show their work on each problem on the worksheet.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Right Triangles

For Students 10th
In this right triangles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 5 various types of problems. First, they solve each of the triangles shown and find the area of each triangle. Then, students find the perimeter and area of the regular...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Area of Triangles and Parallelograms

For Students 9th - 12th
In this area learning exercise, students find the area of 21 triangles and parallelograms. Students find the area of each triangle and parallelogram given a sketch and measurements of the figure.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Area of Quadrilaterals

For Students 10th
In this area of quadrilaterals worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 5 various types of problems. First, they solve each of the triangles shown and find the area of each triangle. Then, students prove that the sum of the squares of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Practical Application For Area

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the concept of surface area and find the coverage for the surfaces in a building that includes carpet or walls. The application of finding the area is practical using the everyday objects to help them to make...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Find the Surface Area of the Triangle

For Students 9th - 10th
For this geometry worksheet, learners are asked to solve for the surface area of a triangle and a trapezoid. They are fiven the height and base. There are 2 questions with an answer key.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Area of Figures That Include Circles

For Students 10th - 12th
In this area worksheet, students calculate the perimeter and area of given complex figures.  They determine the area of shaded regions, and find the distance between straight lines.  This one-page worksheet contains 4 multi-step...