Miss Giraffe's Class: Composing Shapes in 1st Grade
FINDING THE AREA OF COMPOSITE SHAPES

What Is The Area Of A Composite Shape
Check out these 4 important strategies to teach the area of composite shapes and figures. These strategies are important to differentiate teaching to reach all your middle school math and pre algebra students. Click here to read more. #makesenseofmath
1st Grade Geometry: Composite Shapes


What Is A Composite Shape In Math
Area of Composite Shapes Students learn how to find the area of composite shapes. Learning progresses from counting the squares inside the shape to breaking them down into individual rectangles. More able students are challenged to consider overlapping areas.


Composite Shapes:Students look at each picture and choose the correct multiple choice answer that shows which shapes were used to create the picture. Thanks so much for your purchase! Your feedback would be appreciated! For more products like this, visit my store at Liddle Minds.
What Is A Composite Shape
This visual aid helps break down the process of finding the area of a composite figure. It can be used as a full page worksheet or used as a half page guide for students to glue into their math notebooks. The first example is outlined for you.
Students combine polygons to create a composite shape. They then figure out the area of each shape. Then, they add all the shapes together to find the area of the composite figure.






