Formula Questions
What is the formula to find the area of a square?
What is A = s2.
True or False: The formula to find the area of a square and a rectangle is the same formula.
What is False.
Find the Area of a square with side lengths equal to 3.5 inches
What is 12.25 inches squared
Correct vs. Incorrect: You don't need to include the label when solving for area.
What is Incorrect.
What is one reason why you would need to know the area of a room?
What is...
Examples: how much paint to buy, how much carpet you need, how many people can fit in the room, how many desks you can fit in the room, etc.
What is the formula to find the area of a rectangle?
What is A = length times width or lw
True or False: To find the area of a parallelogram, you must multiply the length and the width.
What is False - You must multiply the base and the height.
Find the area of the rectangle with a length of 4.5 in and a width of 12 in
What is 54 inches squared.
Correct vs. Incorrect: You don't include the "square/sq./2" in your label for area.
What is Incorrect.
Is a square a rectangle?
What is Yes.
What is the formula to find the area of a parallelogram?
What is A = BH or Bxh or Base x Height.
True or False: To find the area of a triangle, you divide by 2.
What is True.
Find the area of a parallelogram with base of 13.5 in and a height of 7 in
What is 94.5 inches squared.
Correct vs. Incorrect: You can make up your own label if there is no label with the shape.
What is Incorrect - if no label is provided we use "units".
When do we use base and height instead of length and width when finding area?
What is when solving for a rectangle, parallelogram, and/or a triangle.
What is the formula to find the area of a triangle?
What is A = 1/2 Base times Height or BH/2 or BxH/2 or Base x Height divided by 2
True or False: You divide by 2 when finding the area of a triangle, because it is twice the size of a square/rectangle/parallelogram.
What is False. - it is HALF the size
Find the area of a triangle with a base of 8 in and a height of 10
What is 40 inches squared.
Correct or Incorrect: You divide by 2 when solving for the area of a triangle, because it is HALF the size of a square/rectangle/parallelogram.
What is Correct.
What is the formula for area for an isosceles triangle? equilateral triangle? acute triangle? obtuse triangle?
What is Area = 1/2 x base x height or BH/2.
Tell us how to write the formula for a square, a rectangle, a parallelogram, and a triangle.
What is A = s2, A = LW, A = BH, and A = 1/2BH or BH/2.
True or False: You divide by 2 when finding the area of a triangle, because a triangle is HALF the size of a square/rectangle/parallelogram.
True
Find the area of triangle with a base of 6.5 in and a height of 6.5
What is 21.125 inches squared.
Correct vs. Incorrect: To solve for the area of a triangle, you multiply the length and the width, and then divide by 2.
What is Incorrect - You must multiple the base and the height and divide by 2.
State the name of the triangles based on their angles.
What is acute, right, and obtuse.