UNIT 5 - MULTIPLY & DIVIDE FRACTIONS

Concept Skills

Find the area of a figure in square units.

1 Recognize that the are aof a triangle if half the area of a square or rectangle, sharing the same
base and height.
Square

Units Find the shaded area of a figure.

Recognize the base and height of a triangle.

Find the area of a composite figure by dividing it into squares and/or rectangles.

Find the area of a composite figure by subtracting the area of the small square or rectangle from
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the area of the large square or rectangle.
Rectangles

and Draw a line of symmetry to divide a figure into two equal halves of the same area.

Squares
Find the area of composite figures.

Find the shaded area of a given figure.

 Compare the area of a triangle with the area of its related rectangle.
3 Identify that the height of given triangles related the the given base.

Area of a Use the formulas to find the area of triangles.

Triangle Realize that different triangles sharing the same base and height have the same area.

Find the area of the shaded part of a rectangle by subtracting the area of triangles.

Compare the area of a parallelogram with the area of its related rectangle.

Compare the area of a parallelogram with the area of two congruent rectangles.
4 Use the formula Area of a Parallelogram = Base x Height
Area of a Find the area of the shaded parallelogram by subtracting the area of two triangles from a
rectangle.
Parallelogram
Identify the base and height of the given parallelograms to find the areas.

Find the areas of composite figures made up of rectangles, triangles and/or parallelograms.

Find the number of faces of prisms and pyramids.

Form a net of a rectangular prism. Find the area of each face and the total area of all the faces
5 to find the total surface area.

Surface Area Find the total surface area of a rectangular prism.

Find the total surface area of a cube.

Find the surface area of cuboids and cubes.

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