Why We’re Here:

1. We’re going to review area.
2. We’re going to determine the area of regular polygons.

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Why We’re Here:

1. We’re going to learn/review the area of trapezoids and kites.
2. More to the point, we’re going to get started with applications of area.
3. We’re also going to assess (14) Translations.

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Why We’re Here:

1. We’ll make our own tessellations from a hexagonal base.
2. We’ll review the methods for finding area of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles.

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Why We’re Here:

1. We’ll make our own tessellations from a square base.

Materials:

1. Scissors
2. Index cards, pre-printed with a square and a hexagon.
3. Tesselations Project sheet

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Why We’re Here:

1. We’ll apply and derive translations from figures in the plane.
2. We’ll discuss tessellations, which regular polygons tessellate, which don’t.
3. We’ll get our hands dirty with triangles & quadrilaterals, devising a method for tessellating both of those.

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