Content description VC2M7M01

Mathematics Version 2.0 / Level 7 / Measurement

Content description

establish the formulas for areas of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms and use these in problem-solving

Elaborations

building on the understanding of the area of rectangles to develop formulas for the area of triangles
establishing that the area of a triangle is half the area of an appropriate rectangle
using area formulas for rectangles and triangles to solve problems involving areas of surfaces

Code

VC2M7M01

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