1. What is area and how is area found?
MCC6.G.

2. Area -
The number of square units needed to cover a given surface.

3. Perimeter
AREA
“inside”

4. AREA OF A TRIANGLE Draw a parallelogram
Draw a diagonal to split it into two congruent triangles
Splitting it into parts makes each triangle ½ of the parallelogram

5. AREA of all Triangles
A = ½ bh

6. Height
Height
Base
Base

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13. Practice 7. What is the area of a triangle with a base
16 cm and height 8 cm?
8. Find the area.
9. Find the area of a right triangle with legs
measuring 14cm and 25cm.
10. Find the height of a right triangle that
has an area of 56 square meters and a
base that is 7m.