Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Triangle Explorer
This applet allows users to study the nature of triangles and their area. It draws random triangles on a Cartesian coordinate system. The user can determine the area of the triangle using his or her preferred method. After the calculated...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Area of Trapezoids
Practice finding the areas of trapezoids. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy: Transition From Unit Squares to Area Formula
Find the area of rectangles by multiplying side-lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy: Area of Parallelograms
Practice finding the area of parallelograms given base and height. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy: Areas of Shapes on Grids
In this exercise, students practice finding the areas of shapes on grids. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Khan Academy: Area of Rectangles
Find area of rectangles and squares by multiplying side lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy: Area of Triangles
Practice finding the area of right, acute, and obtuse triangles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Area of Triangles
In this exercise, students practice finding the area of triangles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Other
Nearpod: Geometry: Fall Edition
In this lesson plan, 3rd graders will use multiplication to find the area of a rectangle.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Patios
Does bigger perimeter mean bigger area? Answer this question when you try this math challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. Discover how understanding area and perimeter can be useful in real world situations.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Fractals
Can you figure out what pattern comes next? Explore patterns and perimeter in this math challenge on fractals. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Table for 19 (Pdf)
The waiters at Polygon's Restaurant need your help. See if you can use your problem solving and patterning skills to help them solve this math challenge. Discover how developing these skills could be useful in real life situations, in...
Other
Nearpod: Circles: Area and Circumference
In this lesson on circles, 7th graders will learn how to find the area and circumference of circles, semicircles, and compound shapes using formulas.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of Polygons and Circles
A lesson focusing on the area of polygons and the circumference of circles. Engaging, interactive practice worksheet, lesson plan, and related classroom activity complete this lesson.
Scholastic
Scholastic Lesson Plan: New Way to Measure Area
This article describes a new approach to teaching children more than just memorizing a formula to find area and hope they don't confuse it with perimeter. This approach involves a project with real life situations....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Shape "Monsters" at Night
Using Melanie Watt's book entitled Scaredy Squirrel at Night, this multi-day lesson allows students to apply information about Scaredy Squirrel's night time experiences and its fears as their final product model. Students will create...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Numerically Equal
The challenge for this problem is to see if you can find rectangular shapes that have the same number for their perimeter and area. Solutions are available at this one page website.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Windshield Wipers
Test your mathematical aptitude with challenge exploring the concepts of measurement and geometry. Find the area of the windshield wipers to figure out who sees better in the rain, car drivers or truck drivers. An activity from the NCTM...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Keeping Cool
Is it better to by block ice or crushed ice? Use your logical reasoning and measurement skills to solve this challenge that compares surface area of block ice and the same block cut into three cubes. A one page activity from the NCTM...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Challenge Problems: Circumscribing Shapes
Solve two challenging problems that apply properties of tangents to find the perimeter of a circumscribing shape.
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Khan Academy: Circumference of a Circle
Find the circumference of a circle when given either the radius or diameter.Find the radius or diameter of a circle when given the circumference.Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly,...
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Khan Academy: Area of Right Triangles
Find the area of right triangles Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy: Radius and Diameter
Practice finding the radius and diameter of a circle using both vocabulary and visuals. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy: Area and Circumference of Parts of Circles
In this exercise, students practice find the area and circumference, of parts of circles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.