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    This document contains a worksheet with geometry problems involving finding the areas of various shapes on a geoboard. Students are asked to calculate areas of triangles, hexagons, octagons and other irregular shapes by determining side lengths, counting full and half squares, or subtracting unused space. The worksheet aims to help students practice different methods for area calculations and explore relationships between area, perimeter, and shape properties.

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    Geoboard Activity

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    This document contains a worksheet with geometry problems involving finding the areas of various shapes on a geoboard. Students are asked to calculate areas of triangles, hexagons, octagons and other irregular shapes by determining side lengths, counting full and half squares, or subtracting unused space. The worksheet aims to help students practice different methods for area calculations and explore relationships between area, perimeter, and shape properties.

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    This document contains a worksheet with geometry problems involving finding the areas of various shapes on a geoboard. Students are asked to calculate areas of triangles, hexagons, octagons and other irregular shapes by determining side lengths, counting full and half squares, or subtracting unused space. The worksheet aims to help students practice different methods for area calculations and explore relationships between area, perimeter, and shape properties.

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    Geoboard Activity

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    This document contains a worksheet with geometry problems involving finding the areas of various shapes on a geoboard. Students are asked to calculate areas of triangles, hexagons, octagons and other irregular shapes by determining side lengths, counting full and half squares, or subtracting unused space. The worksheet aims to help students practice different methods for area calculations and explore relationships between area, perimeter, and shape properties.

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    of 6

    Name _______________________________

    Period _________

    GEOBOARD ACTIVITY WORKSHEET

    For this activity, we will start out by using the geoboards from class. For the section that
    is completed at home, you will no longer have the geoboard available.

    1. If each square represents 1 square unit, what is the area of the entire geoboard?
    _________________________

    2. What is the area of the shape shown below? _______________

    a. What is the length of this shapes base? _______________


    b. What is the height of this shape? _________________

    3. What is the area of the shape shown below? _______________

    a. What is the length of this shapes base? _______________


    b. What is the height of this shape? _________________
    Name _______________________________
    Period _________

    4. What is the area of the shape shown below? _______________

    a. What is the length of this shapes base? _______________


    b. What is the height of this shape? _________________

    5. What observation can be made about how the base and height of a triangle
    connects to the area of a triangle? _____________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________

    6. Using this observation, what is the formula for the area of a triangle?
    _____________________________

    7. Create 3 triangles that have an area of 3 square units.

    8. Create 3 triangles that have an area of 4 square units.


    Name _______________________________
    Period _________

    9. Lets look back at the shape from problem #2. Instead of using the formula for
    triangles or relating this shape to the square that came before, lets think about
    halves and wholes.

    a. How many whole squares are there in this shape? ________________


    b. How many half squares are there in this shape? __________________
    This equals how many whole squares? _______________
    c. This all together has an area of ___________________ square units.

    10. Find the area of each of the following shapes. Think about halves and wholes.

    Figure A (the stairs): _________________________


    Figure B (the octagon): _______________________
    Figure C (the empty candle holder): ______________________
    Figure D (the little diamond): ____________________
    Figure E (the sideways head): ___________________________
    Figure F (the trapezoid): ______________________________
    Name _______________________________
    Period _________

    11. Now its your turn to create. Make 3 different shapes that each have an area of 8
    square units and then name each.

    _________________ _________________ ________________


    _________________ _________________ ________________
    _________________ _________________ ________________

    12. Another method we can use to find the area of a shape is to think about the area
    of the space not used. For each of the following shapes, figure about how many
    square units were not included in the shape. Then subtract this value from the
    area of the whole geoboard. Show your work used to solve.

    Not used: _______ Not used: _______ Not used: ________


    Area: __________ Area: __________ Area: ____________

    13. Make the smallest right triangle you can. What is its area? ____________
    Name _______________________________
    Period _________

    14. What is the right triangle on the geoboard with the largest area? _____________

    15. On the geoboard, find at least 3 right triangles with the area of 1.

    16. Find 3 different shapes with an area of 2.5 squares.

    a. Which has the smallest perimeter? ________________________


    b. Which has the largest perimeter? _________________________
    c. Explain why the shape with the largest perimeter has the largest perimeter?
    What can we tell about this shape? _________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________
    Name _______________________________
    Period _________

    17. On the geoboard, make a hexagon (6 sided figure) with an area of 10 square
    units. What is its perimeter? ____________________

    18. On the geoboard, make an octoagon (8 sided figure). What is its area?
    ______________ What is its perimeter? _______________

    19. Make 6 different shapes that each have an area of 10 square units. Get creative!

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