6th Grade Math - Equations for Area and Volume

This post explains and gives practice opportunities related to TEKS 6.8C:

write equations that represent problems related to the area of rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, and triangles and volume of right rectangular prisms where dimensions are positive rational numbers

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Instruction

Students learn how to find the area of a trapezoid in 6th grade and there's more than one way to write the formula.

Students also recall equations for area and volume for previously learned shapes.

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STAAR Practice

Between 2016 and 2022 (including redesign practice), this supporting standard has been tested 7 times on the STAAR test. Videos explaining the problems can be found below. If you'd rather take a quiz over these questions, click here. The videos below are linked to the questions in the quiz as answer explanations after the quiz is submitted.

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