Activity Overview:

In this interactive trivia game, students will use their knowledge of how to find the area of triangles, parallelograms, and other irregular shape. I suggest this be used after the first few lessons introducing triangles and area of basic and composite shapes to your sixth grade math students as a fun way to check student's understandings of CCSS 6.G.A Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

What's Included:

• 16 Question Slides that review CCSS 6.G.A: Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems. Each question has a button that links directly to the answer
• 16 Answer Slides that link back to the game board
• Game Board Slide that links directly to the questions
• Every slide has a button to take you back to the game board

Game Categories/Questions

1. Triangle Facts: Identify types of triangles and the formula to calculate the area
2. Wordy Problems: Real-world problems to solve for the area of triangles and parallelograms
3. What's the Area: Calculate the area of triangles, parallelogram, and composite shapes. Students will also need to identify missing side lengths. These problems include decimals.
4. Irregular Shapes: Calculate the area of composite shapes that include finding missing side lengths and decimals.

How to Use this Activity:

This game is in a Google Slides format that is ready to present and play! Present the game board (slide 3) and students can choose their category and the point value. Click on the point value and it will take you to the question. Set a time for 30-60 seconds, depending on your student's needs, and then click the "Answer" button on the side to be taken to the answer. I suggest clarifying any questions and reviewing how to solve any questions that were incorrect. Once the answer is given and points are assigned, click the "Return to Main Menu" button to go back to the game board.

Two Ways to Play:

1: Each team takes a turn to choose a question and only that team gets to answer.  If they get it right, they get positive points, if they get it wrong, negative points.

2: Each team takes a turn to choose a question BUT all teams get the opportunity to answer. Give them a limited time (I suggest 60 seconds) to identify an answer, write it on paper or a white board and then show the answer at the same time.  Each team who gets the correct answer gets points and no negative points if a team gets it incorrect.

Suggestions for use:

I suggest you use this game as a formative assessment after students have learned to calculate the area of triangles, parallelograms and composite shapes that include decimal side lengths.

Have fun!!

If you enjoyed this worksheet, check out some other resources I have:

Worksheets:

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Area of Composite Shapes

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6th Grade Ratio, Rate and Percent Unit Review Trivia Game

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