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Instructional Video14:56
Corbett Maths

Area under a Graph

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
What? The calculation of area is a linear distance? A short video shows how to use the areas of simple polygons to estimate the area under a graph. Pupils divide the area under a curve into figures to easier calculate the area. Given...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Coordinate Planes - Area of Triangle

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online math worksheet, students 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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding the Area of an Equilateral Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
The problem seems simple: find the area of the equilateral triangle whose sides are each length 1. In fact, this same problem is solved in 8th grade, addressing a different Common Core standard, using the formula for area of a triangle...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Finding Areas of Polygons, Variation 1

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
An exercise in finding the area of polygons by decomposing into triangles and composing into rectangles is the focus of this resource. Make several copies of the worksheet for each participant. Ask learners to use colored pencils to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Similar Triangles and Trapezoids, and Circles

For Students 9th - 12th
High schoolers answer two problems involving area of shaded regions. Students then answers six questions involving perimeter, area, and circumferences. The remaining two questions involve ratios of similar figures.
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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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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Using Trigonometry to Determine Area

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What do you do when you don't think you have enough information? You look for another way to do the problem! Pupils combine what they know about finding the area of a triangle and trigonometry to determine triangle area when they don't...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Triangle Area: No Height? Use the Sine

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
No height? No problem! Learners use their knowledge and a little help from GeoGebra to develop the Law of Sines formula. The Law of Sines helps to determine the height of triangles to calculate the area.
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Strings and Areas

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
You'd be surprised what you can do with a string! The constraint is the length of string, and the task is to maximize area. Given a series of composite shapes, learners must create a formula for the maximum area for a specified...
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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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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Properties of Area

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What properties does area possess? Solidify the area properties that pupils learned in previous years. Groups investigate the five properties using four problems, which then provide the basis for a class discussion.
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Area Upgrade

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Imagine a world built of triangles. A performance task asks scholars to consider just that. They use their knowledge of special segments of a triangle to make decisions about the area of triangular plots of land.
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Area of Common Geometric Figures

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Scholars can use area formulas, but can they apply what they know about area? The lesson plan challenges learners to think logically while practicing finding area of shapes such as rectangles, circles, parallelograms, triangles, and...
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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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Flipped Math

Parallelograms and Triangles

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Expand area problems to incorporate prior knowledge. Pupils begin by reviewing the formulas for finding the area of parallelograms and triangles. The scholars apply previous learning of trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Determination of Unknown Triangle Measures Given Area: Jib Sheets

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Solving triangles is a breeze. Young boat enthusiasts solve problems involving triangles in the context of sails on a boat. They must apply different strategies, including the Law of Cosines and area formulas.
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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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Instructional Video16:02
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Flipped Math

Unit 9 Review: Area of Polygons

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
It's time to show what you know! Individuals first review finding the area of polygons using the formulas from parallelograms to regular polygons. They then brush up on finding the area and circumference of circles, as well as reviewing...
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Performance
Radford University

Finding the Largest Possible Area

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If you want a bigger garden, here's a task for you. Given the perimeter of a triangular garden, scholars determine the largest possible area. They then generalize their findings and extend the idea to other polygons.
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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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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Scaling Principle for Area

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
As they investigate scaling figures and calculate the resulting areas, groups determine the area of similar figures. They continue to investigate the results when the vertical and horizontal scales are not equal. 
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Assessment
Mathed Up!

Area of Sector and Length of Arcs

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Viewers learn how to apply proportional reasoning to find area of sectors and arc lengths with a video that starts off explaining how to find the areas of circle sectors and the lengths of arcs. Scholars then practice solving problems...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Area of a Triangle

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students solve the area of triangles. In this precalculus lesson, students are given two sides of a triangle and asked to calculate the area. They apply the law of sine and the side-angle-side area formula to solve.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Perimeter, Circumference, Volume, and Surface Area

For Students 8th - 11th
In this Perimeter, Circumference, Volume, and Surface Area instructional activity, students are asked to identify geometric formulas and calculate for volume and surface area for geometric solids.  In addition, students are asked to...

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