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Recycling Drive: Space and Supplies

Find areas of triangles, quadrilaterals, and composite polygons while planning collection spaces and supplies for a recycling drive.

Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to6.G.A.1

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 6
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students find areas of triangles and special quadrilaterals by splitting or rearranging them.
  • Students find composite polygon areas by adding or subtracting rectangle and triangle areas.
  • Students use area calculations to make recycling-drive supply and space decisions.

How to use

Have students mark useful bases, perpendicular heights, and dividing lines before calculating. Discuss the two-copy reasoning in Question 10.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

6.G.A.1

Find the area of triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by splitting them into triangles or rearranging into rectangles.

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Recycling Drive: Space and Supplies

Use triangles and rectangles to plan collection areas for cans, bottles, and paper.

Collection Spaces

Find each area. On coordinate plans, one grid unit represents 1 meter. Vertices are listed in boundary order; complete each outline by connecting the last vertex to the first. Use perpendicular heights.

1.
Volunteers reserve a triangular space for bagged cans. Its base is 9 m and its perpendicular height is 6 m. Imagine pairing it with an identical triangle to make a parallelogram.

What is the area of the reserved space?   m²

2.
Triangle ABC marks a bottle-sorting space. The top vertex extends past the right end of the horizontal base. Find the triangle's area.−6−5−4−3−2−11234560−5−4−3−2−112345ABC

Area:   m²

3.
Parallelogram ABCD is a paper-stacking space. A triangular piece can be moved from one end to the other to make a rectangle. What is its area?−6−5−4−3−2−11234560−4−3−2−11234ABCD
  • A. 36 m²
  • B. 30 m²
  • C. 12 m²
  • D. 24 m²

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