Vocabulary
“put together.”
What is Compose?
What is the formula for area of a square or rectangle?
What is A=Length x Width or A=Base x Height?
What is the formula for area of a parallelogram?
What is A=Base x Height?
What is the formula for area of a triangle?
What is A=Base x Height/2?
is a point where two or more edges meet.
What is a Vertex?
“take apart.”
What is Decompose?
a type of polygon that has 4 sides. A rectangle is an example of this polygon.
What is a quadrilateral?
the shortest distance from the base of the shape to the opposite side (for a parallelogram) or opposite vertex (for a triangle).
What is Height?
for each side of a triangle, there is one of these that is not on that side.
What is the opposite vertex?
Each straight side of a polygon.
What is an edge?
a type of quadrilateral that has two pairs of parallel sides.
What is a Parallelogram?
Mr. T dreams of having a square in-ground pool. He hopes the pool can have a length of 15 feet. How wide is the pool?
What is 15 feet?
What two identical shapes can be used to make up a parallelogram & solve for the area of a parallelogram using the D.R.C. method?
What is a triangle?
the height of the triangle has to do what action to the its' corresponding base?
What is intersect and make a 90 degree angle?
What is the name of the 4-sided polygon with 2 sets of parallel lines and opposite sides and angles are equal?
What is a parallelogram?
a point where two or more edges meet.
What is a vertex?
The width of a sticky-note is 2 inches. How long is it? What is the total area?
What is 2 inches long and 4 inches2?
A parallelogram has a base length of 6 inches. What is the height if the total area of the parallelogram is 42 inches2?
What is 7 inches?
If a triangle has a base of 3 units and a height of 6 units, what is the area?
What is 9 units2?
What does it mean "finding the area of the region inside it?"
What is finding area of polygons?
the number of square units that cover a two-dimensional region, without any gaps or overlaps.
What is Area?
The area of a rectangular playground is 78 square meters. If the length of the playground is 13 meters, what is its width?
What is 6 meters?
A parallelogram has a total area of 450 units2. If the height is 25 units, how long is the base?
What is 18 units?
If a parallelogram has an area 70 cm2, what would the area of a triangle?
What is 35 units2?
What are the characteristics of a polygon?
What is composed of line segments, each segment meets only one other segment at each end/the segments do not cross one another, two-dimensional?