1. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles? Lesson 14-2 Area of Triangles pp. 551-554

2. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles? Take a look at this: Do those two triangles make a shape you recognize?

3. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles? A parallelogram can be formed by two triangles with equal sides and angle measurements. Since congruent triangles have the same area, the area of a triangle is one half the area of the parallelogram.

4. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles?

5. Example – Find the Area of a Triangle

6. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles? Example – Find the Area of a Triangle

7. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles? Your Turn: Find the area of each triangle. Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.

8. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles? Use Area to Solve a Problem

9. EQ: How do you find the areas of triangles? Class work – p. 553 # 3-6 Homework – p. 553 # 7-17 all