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A Bug's Life - Estimating Area of Irregular Polygons

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This is a creative writing project that includes a rubric for scoring student's work. It works well as a team project. The focus of the project is on solving a contextual problems involving area of a two-dimensional object composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, and polygons.

8/2/2016 Trey Cox
7.G.B.6 6.G.A.1 MP.1 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 7 Activity

An AREA Riddle

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Knowing the perimeter of a certain rectangle, see if you can figure out what the area of the rectangle might be. Then, discover what happens to the area when the perimeter of the rectangle doubles...

8/2/2016 Lynda Boepple
4.MD.A.3 6.G.A.1 7.G.A.1 7.G.B.6 7.RP.A.1 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.7 MP.8 4 6 7 Activity

Area of a house

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Goal: The goal of this activity is for students to find the area of a house floor plan. They will need to use their knowledge of rectangles to identify the missing side lengths to find the correct area. This also allows students to see how area is used in a real-life application.

8/2/2016 Ashley Nicoloff
7.G.B.6 6.G.A.1 MP.1 MP.2 MP.3 MP.4 MP.5 MP.6 MP.8 5 6 7 8 HS Activity