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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: 
              
            We then noted a couple of things that should be pretty straight forward to understand: 
              
              
             
            We finished by doing the following example: 
              
            Which we solved by breaking it up into smaller parts and adding the results together: 
              
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