Area of Parallelograms and Trapezoids
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Area of Parallelograms and Trapezoids
Area of parallelograms and trapezoids worksheet: twelve shapes drawn to scale, from plain ones to turned shapes with the height outside and slanted sides to ignore. Grade 6, with an answer key.
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Area of a ParallelogramA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.Area of a TrapezoidA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Find the area of parallelograms, triangles and trapezoids by cutting and moving parts to make rectangles, then with their formulas, and find the area of shapes made of these.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child mark the base and the height of each shape before using a formula.
- Show why a triangle is half a rectangle by drawing the rectangle around it.
- For composite figures, have the child split the shape and label each part with its area.
Common mistakes
- Using a slanted side as the height. The height is straight up from the base, at a right angle.
- Forgetting to halve for a triangle, so the area is base × height.
- For a trapezoid, using only one base. Add the two parallel sides, then halve and multiply by the height.
