NAME ______________________________ DATE _______________

ACTIVITY

Measuring Area with Triangles

Using the triangle piece, determine the area of each of the designs that you made. How many triangles does it take to cover the design?

  • 1 Look at your first design. What is its area? _______________

    Explain how you determined its area.

  • 2 Look at your second design. What is its area? _______________

    Explain how you determined its area.


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Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison Unit 2 Generating and Representing Measurement Data Unit 3 Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems Unit 4 Measuring and Classifying Shapes Unit 5 Large Numbers and Landmarks Unit 6 Fraction Cards and Decimal Grids Unit 7 How Many Packages and Groups? Unit 8 Penny Jars and Towers