Area of a scalene triangle
A triangle with three different sides is drawn on a grid where each block is 1 cm². The student finds the area enclosed between the lines.
One side often runs along a grid line, so half of base × height works. Otherwise, the triangle can be boxed in a rectangle and the corner triangles taken away.
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What changes each time
- Corners on a 16 × 16 grid
- Three different side lengths
- A new triangle every time
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