Calculating Area
9th Grade · Math · 20 min· E2.7 Compare The Areas Of Two-dimensional Shapes By Matching, Covering, Or Decomposing And Recomposing The Shapes, And Demonstrate That Different Shapes Can Have The Same Area
Lesson Preview
Learning Objective
I can find the area of two dimensional shapes
- 1
To find the area of a composite shape, separate the shape into simpler shapes, find the area of those shapes, and then add them together.
- 2
Area is the amount of space or surface inside of a shape.
- 3
When finding the area of a rectangle, the formula is area = length × width.
