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Finding the area of parallelograms
Students find the area of a parallelogram by moving a triangular section. The area of a shape doesn’t change if you rearrange the shape to make it into a different shape without increasing or decreasing the size of the shape.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6) Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- BetterLesson
- Copyright
- © Carla Seeger. Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0.
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- lesson worksheet
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