apt4Maths: AREA OF RECTANGLES & TRIANGLES PowerPoint (9 of 18 on Measures, Perimeter, Area & Volume)

PowerPoint Presentation on Area of Rectangles and Triangles (21 slides) for GCSE (and Key Stage 3) Maths: Explains what is meant by area, how to estimate the area of any shape, and how to calculate the area of rectangles (and squares), and of triangles. It has been written by a highly experienced teacher (of 25+ years), senior examiner and reviser for Maths and Stats examinations. It includes:

Lesson objectives
Step-by-step explanations of the subject matter
Examples to aid understanding
Questions to check understanding
Answers to questions, with explanations
Suggestions regarding which topic(s) should be moved on to next.

This is 1 of a set of 18 PowerPoints Presentations on ‘Measures, Perimeter, Area and Volume’ that APT Initiatives has published for GCSE (and Key Stage 3) Maths. The complete set of 18 Powerpoints (265 slides, excluding Title Pages) covers the following topics relating to ’Measures, Perimeter, Area and Volume’:

01 Measures – Units, Equipment and Scales (15 slides)
02 Metric Measures and their Conversions (13 slides)
03 Converting between Metric and Imperial Units (11 slides)
04 Time – Telling the Time (12 slides)
05 Time Calculations (12 slides)
06 Time – Dates, Calendars and Timetables (14 slides)
07 Compound Measures (21 slides)
08 Perimeter (12 slides)
09 Area of Rectangles and Triangles (21 slides)
10 Area of Quadrilaterals (18 slides)
11 Area of Rectilinear Compound Shapes (9 slides)
12 Circles (18 slides)
13 Pythagoras’ Theorum (23 slides)
14 Harder Trigonometry (16 slides)
15 Surface Area of Cuboids, Prisms and Cylinders (14 slides)
16 Surface Area of Pyramids, Cones and Spheres (11 slides)
17 Volume of Cuboids, Prisms and Cylinders (15 slides)
18 Volume of Pyramids, Cones and Spheres (11 slides)

These PowerPoint Presentations are one of several sets of PowerPoint Presentations, which essentially relate to the ‘Geometry and Measures’ section of the Maths specifications. These other sets concern:

Shapes, Angles and Constructions
Symmetry, Transformations and Vectors

Note: Distance-Time Graphs and Velocity-Time Graphs are included in APT’s set of PowerPoints on ‘Graphs’.

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