While the lesson focuses on right triangles, this activity offers a great way to practice the area of all triangles through an interactive webpage. The activity begins with the class taking a square paper and cutting in in half; can they relate the area of the square to the right triangles? Then they use the webpage, which provides different triangles on a coordinate grid to calculate the the area. The lesson discusses right triangles, while medium and hard levels of the activity have non-right triangle examples. Learners should be able to find the area of a triangle when height or base is not obvious using the distance formula or box method if using the hard level examples. 

Concepts

area formulas, area, area of triangles

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Additional Tags

area of a triangle, triangle review, area of a right triangle, area formula, triangle area formula, math

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Classroom Considerations

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

• Different types of triangles used on an easy-to-see coordinate grid
• Lesson can be adaptable for all triangles

Cons

• Does not reference how to find the area of irregular triangles

Common Core

6.G.A.1 7.G.B.6 MP6