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6.1 Area and Surface Area · Lesson 7: Unit 7Math · Grade 6 Math · Grade 6Lesson plan

Learning goals: Teacher Facing Describe (orally and in writing) ways in which two identical triangles can be composed, i.e., into a parallelogram or into a rectangle. Show how any parallelogram can be decomposed into two identical triangles by drawing a diagonal, and generalize (in writing) that this property applies to all parallelograms, but not all quadrilaterals. Full lesson plan (warm-up, activities, synthesis, cool-down prompt) from 6.1 Area and Surface Area, Grade 6.

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