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Understanding Area - Lesson 11-1
Today we started covering area....I didn't teach it though - some of you did! Woohoo! Anyway, I thought it might be nice for me to put some notes here anyway, so here they are:
We started by remember how to find the area of a rectangle:
![Rectangle Area Postulate](RectangleArea.gif)
We then noted a couple of things that should be pretty straight forward to understand:
![Congruent Polygons have Equal Areas](EqualAreas.gif)
![Union of Areas equals their sum](UnionOfAreas.gif)
We finished by doing the following example:
![Area Example](AreaExampleStep1.gif)
Which we solved by breaking it up into smaller parts and adding the results together:
![Area Example Solution](AreaExampleStep2.gif)
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