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Geometry Finding Pentominoes
Students explore the characteristics of geometric shapes. In this geometric shapes lesson, students use tiles to draw pentominoes. Students participate in various learning center activities focused on configuring pentominoes.
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Volume of Cones
Students identify the volume of cones and pyramids. In this geometry lesson, students derive the formula for cones and pyramids. They calculate the volume of cones and other three dimensional shapes.
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Where Are You?: Prepositions of Place
Examine prepositions of place in this language arts lesson. Learners participate in activities to indicate prepositions and physical actions that demonstrate those prepositions. They create drawings with shapes, play the games "Simon...
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Finding Area of Triangles
In this triangle worksheet, students find the area of a set of 4 triangles, writing their answer in a rectangle found beneath each. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
West Virginia Department of Education
Intelligence of Authentic Character - News Coverage and John Brown's Raid
The resource, a standalone, shows how news coverage of John Brown's Raid began when the event happened and how that reporting shaped perception in West Virginia history. The resource includes interesting anticipatory discussion...
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Area Explorations
Students explore the concept of area. In this area activity, students find the area of irregular shapes with right angles. Students break down each irregular shape into multiple regular shapes in order to find the area. Students...
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Perimeter and Area
In this perimeter and area worksheet, 6th graders find the perimeter and area of shapes with right angles. Students complete this for 9 shapes total.
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Area – Parallelograms and Trapezoids
In this geometry skills instructional activity, students solve 4 problems that require them to calculate the area of parallelograms and trapezoids.
Math Mammoth
Applications of Quadratic Equations
In this math activity, students find the areas of a triangle, rectangular box, and the irregular shape. They take a portion of the area away from the source block.
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Extra Practice 7.1: Properties of Exponents
In this properties of exponents worksheet, students multiply and divide terms with variables and exponents. They find the area of triangles and circles. Students determine the volume of given shapes. This two-page...
Illustrative Mathematics
Distance across the channel
Here you will find a model of a linear relationship between two quantities, the water depth of a channel and the distance across the channel at water level. The cross section of the channel is the shape of an isosceles trapezoid. The...
EngageNY
Problem Solving and the Coordinate Plane
Class members investigate rectangles on the coordinate plane. They determine the length of line segments in the coordinate plane with the same x-coordinate or same y-coordinate and then solve geometric problems involving perimeter...
101 Questions
Canadian Thanksgiving Tradition
It's all about the portion size! Given a photo of a pumpkin pie, learners work to determine the number of calories that are missing. Supplemental information provides the angle of the piece that is missing as well as the nutritional...
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The Area of a Triangle
In this area of a triangle instructional activity, students solve 30 problems in which the area of triangles are calculated. There is instruction on the page. This is intended for on-line use but can be done on paper.
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Finding Areas of Polygons- Extra Practice Worksheet
In this geometry worksheet, students practice finding the area of 11 polygons using diagrams which include units in both standard and metric measurement. They solve for the area of 11 polygons using words that describe the polygons that...
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Length, Perimeter, and Area
Learners explore the concepts of length, perimeter, and area. In this math activity, students use Shape Explorer to practice finding length, perimeter, and area.
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Finding Angles, Volume, Area, and Perimeter
Elementary schoolers complete word problems dealing with the different kinds of measurements of different shapes. They solve 10 problems including perimeter, angles, volume, and more.
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Nets And Surface Area
Upper graders investigate how to find the surface area when using two-dimensional shapes. They conduct an investigation in groups while working sample problems given during class discussion with the teacher. They also review how to...
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Gingerbread Baby's Point of View #8
Read the story Gingerbread Baby and use these various activities to connect to grammar, art, and point of view. In one activity, learners create character masks. They practice writing verbs on the back of the masks to tell what each...
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What's My Area?
Learners use tiles to find area. For this finding area lesson, students explore how to use square tiles to make shapes, then look at how they can be used to measure area. Learners then explore how an area can be covered with different...
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Math Worksheet: Area (3)
In this area worksheet, students find the area of one irregular polygon. Students find the area by dividing the irregular polygon into multiple regular polygons.
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Area of Shapes
In this geometry instructional activity, students find the area of squares, rectangles, and non traditional shapes. Students complete 5 problems on this instructional activity.
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Area Formulas
Teach your pupils to calculate the area of different polygons. Learners create formulas to solve their problems. They use the TI navigator to graph their shapes and observe the change in area.
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Areas of Polygons
Students calculate the are of regular polygons. In this geometry lesson, students create polygons on the computer and move it around to create different shapes. They explore the area of different polygons and how they inter-relate.