In this lesson students will practice finding the area of irregular shapes with right angles and understand that there are different methods for calculating area.

Creating names with block letters students calculate area of irregular shapes. This activity also make a real world application to the popular video game Minecraft.

Practice finding the areas of complex shapes that are composed of smaller shapes. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

In this lesson students will practice finding the area of rectangular shapes and irregular shapes with right angles and understand why the area formula works for rectangular shapes. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.5.b A plane figure which can...

Third graders look for break apart irregular polygons to make arrays to find the area of these common shapes.

Test your knowledge of determing the area of irregular shapes.

In this activity, students' find the surface area of geometric shapes cut from card paper and relate it to its mass. They use this data to find the surface area of irregularly shaped objects.

In this lesson students will practice finding the area rectangular shapes and irregular shapes with right angles and understand why the area formula works for rectangular shapes.

This resource has three sets of problems. Each set has six questions for finding area of irregular shapes formed by line segments. Select a problem set, then select a question. Fill in the blank with the correct answer for each problem....

Investigate how a variety of shapes can be used to form composite figures using this interactive Learn Alberta math resource. Students will also work on using relevant operations and formulas to figure out the total area of composite...

Drawings and discussion of several methods to estimate the area of an irregular shape, like the state of Texas.

In this task, students must estimate the number of leaves on a large tree, taking into account various complex factors such as the area shaded by the tree, the area of irregularly shaped leaves, the uneven distribution of leaves, the...

Dividing an irregular shape into rectangles helps students find the area of an irregular shape.

At its core, the LEGO MINDSTORMS product provides a programmable microprocessor. Students use the EV3 processor to simulate an experiment involving thousands of uniformly random points placed within a unit square. Using the underlying...

Explore the world of prisms in this mini-lesson by learning what are prisms, definitions with shapes and examples, the difference between regular, irregular, right, and oblique prisms, the surface area of a prism, and the volume of a...

At the end of this lesson plan about formulas, students will be able to identify and apply the correct formula for a given situation, solve for any unknown component of the formulas for perimeter, circumference, and area of regular and...