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Area of a Parallelogram
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Area of a Parallelogram

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Subject MathGeometry
Grade Level Grades 6-8
Resource Type Activity, Assessment, Handout, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
Standards Alignment
Common Core State Standards
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About This Lesson

The overarching design of this lesson plan and worksheets is to launch students on a brief and somewhat directed explore time on how to decompose and compose a parallelogram in order to discover an efficient way to find area. Lesson Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate that any parallelogram can be decomposed and recomposed into a rectangle, and as such to calculate the area of a parallelogram by multiplying the base times the height. Aligned with Common Core State Standard: 6.G.1

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MA_6G_Lesson_01_Powerpoint.ppt

Lesson Plan
February 10, 2020
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MA_6G_Lesson_01_Classwork.doc

Activity
February 10, 2020
280 KB
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MA_6G_Lesson_01_Homework.doc

Activity
February 10, 2020
270.5 KB
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MA_6G_Lesson_01_Labsheet.doc

Handout, Worksheet
February 10, 2020
76 KB
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MA_6G_Lesson_01_Exit_Ticket.doc

Assessment
February 10, 2020
140.5 KB
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MA_6G_Lesson_01_Worksheets.pdf

February 12, 2020
682.69 KB

Standards

Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
5.0
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hummelk
hummelk May 25, 2013

The opportunities for students to verbalize their thinking will really help with understanding and retention.

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