Common Core · Grade 6
6.G.A.1
Grade 6 — Find the area of triangles, special quadrilaterals and polygons by composing and decomposing them.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- Find the perimeter and area of rectangles and triangles.
- Use the area formulas for parallelograms and trapezoids.
- Decompose a composite figure to find its area.
- Work backwards from an area to a missing side length.