Content description VCMMG258

Mathematics / Level 7 / Measurement and Geometry / Using units of 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

VCMMG258

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