POLYGON AREAS JOURNAL

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St. Stephen Catholic School

6th Grade Math
Parallelograms
Key formula: =

Find the area of these parallelograms:

1. 2.

12 in. 11 cm

14 in. 5 cm

base * height = 12 * __ = 168 in.2 bh = __ * __ = ___ in.2

Find the area of the shaded regions:

3. 4.

3m
2m
6m 4 ft 7 ft

2 ft

4m 10 ft

We want to find the area of the Same goal as last time, so we

trapezoid minus the area of the calculate __ * __ __ * __ = ____ m2
rectangle. So we calculate 4 * __ __
* 3 = ____ m2
5. A stained glass window has an area of 900 square inches.
a. Question: One window design is made of rectangular stained glass
pieces that are 5 inches by 3 inches. How many stained glass pieces are used
in the window?
Answer: We need enough stained glass pieces to cover 900 square inches.
How many square inches are in each piece? There are 5 * __ = ___ square
inches per piece. How many of these pieces with area ___ square inches will
cover a window of 900 square inches? We divide to find the answer we
want the area of the __________ ___________ divided by the area of the
___________ ___________. So 900 ____ = ______ pieces.
b. Question: Another window design, still with an area of 900 square
inches, is made of square stained glass pieces that are 6 inches by 6 inches.
How many stained glass pieces are used in the window?
Answer: Area per piece = ___ * ____ = ______ square inches. How many
of these pieces are needed to cover the window? _____ ____ = ______
pieces.
Triangles
1 1
Key formula: = =
2 2

Find the area of these triangles:

1. 2.

5 in.
18 ft

10 in.
18 ft
1 1 1
* base * height = * __ * 5 = __ in.2 bh = ___ * __ * ___ = 162 ft2
2 2 2

3. 4.

26 cm

14 m
11 m 9 cm

1
___ * _________ * height = * __ * 11 __ *__ * __ = ___ * __ * ___ = ___
2
= __ m2 cm2
 5. 6.

13 mm
2 yd

7 yd

6 mm
1
_________ = * 7 * ___ = ____ yd 2
_________ = ___ * ___ * ___ = ____ mm2
2

7. A triangular bookshelf has a base of 4 inches and a height of 8 inches. Find the
area of the bookshelf.
Answer: We need enough stained glass pieces to cover 900 square inches.
How many square inches are in each piece? There are 5 * __ = ___ square
inches per piece. How many of these pieces with area ___ square inches will
cover a window of 900 square inches? We divide to find the answer we
want the area of the __________ ___________ divided by the area of the
___________ ___________. So 900 ____ = ______ pieces.

8. George has built a triangle-shaped table. Heres a picture:

Question: Whats the area of the top of Georges
3 ft table?
3 ft
Answer: Use our regular area formula: area = ___
* ________ * height. So the area of the table is ___ *
___ * ___ = ____ ft2. To turn this improper fraction

into a mixed number, do long division: =

________ ft2.
 Remember: the number above the division bar is our whole number, the
numerator is the remainder of the fraction, and the denominator is the
number were dividing by (the number to the left of the division symbol).
9. Error analysis: Find Mr. VZs two mistakes in calculating the area of this
triangle. Then calculate the correct area.

3 cm

6 cm

Mr VZs (wrong) calculation: the area is 5 * 3 = 15 cm2. What are his

mistakes?
1.
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Correct answer: ___ * ___ * ____ = ____ cm2

Trapezoids
1 1
Key formula: = ( 1 + 2) = (1 + 2 )
2 2

Find the area of these trapezoids:

1. 2.

15 cm 9 ft

4 ft
7 cm

Find the area of the trapezoid with height h and bases b 12 ft

9 cm

1 1 1
* height * (base 1 + base 2) = * 7 * h(b1 + b2) = ___ * ___ * (______) =
2 2 2
1 ___ * ___ *___ = ___ ft2
(___ + 15) = * 7 * 24 = 84 cm2
2

3. 4.
 Find the area of these trapezoids with height h and bases b1 and b2

5. h = 10 yd 6. h = 9 cm
b1 = 17 yd b1 = 4.5 cm
b2 = 21 yd b2 = 5.5 cm
Answer: Answer:
1 1 1
* height * (base 1 + base 2) = * 10 * h(b1 + b2) = ___ * ___ * (___ + ___) =
2 2 2
1
(17 + ___) = * 10 * 38 = 5 * 38 = ___ * ____ * ___ = ___ * ____ =
2
190 yd2 _____ cm2

To get this 5, just Do the same thing we

1 did for the last
do * 10 = 5
2 problem to get rid of
now we got rid of 1
the
the fraction 2

7. Whats the area of the desk? Answer:

1
(1 + 2 ) = _____ * ___ * (___ +
2
___) = _____ * ___ * (____) = _____ *
_____ *_____ = _______ .2
Polygons in the Coordinate Plane
Key idea: To find the length of a ______________ or ______________
line segment in a coordinate plane, use the ________________. When
the x-coordinates are the same, find the ___________ distance between the
points:____ y-coordinate - _________ y-coordinate. When the y-coordinates are
the same, find the ___________ distance between the points:____ x-coordinate -
_________ x-coordinate.
Plot and label each pair of points in the coordinate plane. Find the area of the
polygon.

1. 2.

Answer: This shape is a Answer: This shape is a rectangle, so

___________, so we can use this we use the formula =
1
formula: = . To find the (which is the same as
2
base, we use the x-coordinates, .) To find the length of the
because theres a straight bottom side, which is a horizontal line
horizontal line segment. Calculate segment, do 6 ___ = 3. To find
the bigger number minus the either of the vertical sides, subtract y-
smaller one: 5 2 = ____. For the values. = 7 2 =
height, we use y-values (because 5. So our total area is
we already used x-values). The = ____ ___ = ______ units2.
bigger y minus the smaller one is
___ 2 = 4. So our total area is =
1 1
= 3 ____ = 6 units2.
2 2
3.
Answer: What shape is this?
Whats our area formula?
Whats the length of the bottom side?
Whats the vertical length?
Whats the total area?
4.
Answer: What shape is this?
Whats our area formula?
1
_______________ ( 1
2
+ _________)
Whats the length of the bottom side?
Use x-values again, since this side is
horizontal. =
_____ ______ = 6
Whats the length of the top side?
Whats the height? Use y-values, since
this is a vertical length.
= _____ ______ = _____
Whats the total area?
_____ * ___ * (___ + ___) = _____ * ___ *
(____) = _____ *
_____ *_____ = 12 units2.
5. The vertices of a rectangular sandbox are P(12, 14), Q(12, 17), R(16, 17), and
S(16, 14). The coordinates are measured in feet. What is the perimeter of the
sandbox?
Answer: Remember that perimeter is the distance around a two-dimensional
shape1. So just add up the sides of our sandbox! Notice that these
vertices make a rectangle. Each sidelength occurs twice. To find one
dimension, calculate = 16 ___ = 4. To find
the other dimension, calculate = ____________
= ____. Total perimeter: 2 ( 1) + 2 ( 2) =
2 4 + 2 ___ = 14. Lets check: count the side lengths.

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5. The vertices of a campsite are (25, 15), (25, 30), (55, 30), and (55, 15). The
vertices of your tent are (30, 20), (30, 25), (40, 25), and (40, 20). The coordinates
are measured in feet. Whats the area of the campsite not covered by your tent?
Notice that both the campsite and the tent are rectangular in shape.
Answer: Area of the total campsite, including tent: ( )
( ) = (__________________)
(_______________) =____ ____ = ________ ft2

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Area of tent:

Area of campsite except the tent: = ______ ______ =

** Most of the problems in this packet, along with some of the diagrams, are
drawn from Big Ideas Math Green, Ron Larson and Laurie Boswell, 2014.