Unknown Length and Area Problems

A triangle, square, hexagon, and circle all have a perimeter of one unit. Eighth graders must attempt to find the area of each and arrange them in order from least to greatest areas. A terrific task for applying four different...

This worksheet manages to provide both fun and serious work solving exponential and logarithmic application problems in engaging story lines and real-life situations. A strong emphasis on science applications and numbers pulled...

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...

Introducing the Heronês formula is the main objective of this lecture. Essentially, it describes how to solve a problem. Heron's formula is given, and then a problem is solved. Since the actual explanation of the formula will be given...

Sal starts to solve a trigonometric word problem of a wayward ship captain who veers off course and once aware of his predicament, needs to know how far he is from his destination. Instead of using the Law of Cosines in his solution, Sal...

Learn how to use the formula for area to solve a problem about a rectangle. The demonstrator shows how to plug in the known values of a rectangle, and then how to use the formula for area to solve for the variable in question.

Teach your class about various approaches to solving the problem of maximizing the area of a rectangle space with a fixed perimeter in the context of a farmer's dog pen. Then, they complete a worksheet independently to summarize the...

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....

Middle and high schoolers listen to a scenario about a puppy and use the scenario to develop formulas in order to find the area of a circle. In this circumference lesson, pupils understand how to find the radius, diameter, area of a...

While the instructional activity 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...