Tuesday, February 26, 2008

8.3 Area Problems

8.3 Brings together all the area formulas we have found so far. And it is bringing them together in word problems. I am used this lesson to go over how to approach word problems.

1: Read the problem carefully
2: Draw a picture and label the apropriate parts
3: Think of what equations might help with solving this problem
4: Fill the equations with the parts from the picture and solve

I would like to come up with a nice concise way of explaining word problems for my Geometry students. Any help would be appreciated.

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