Area Transformations

Jed Butler, 28/05/2014

This book uses transformations to develop an intuition for calculating area


  • 1. Parallelogram Transform
  • 2. Trapezoids and Triangles
  • 3. Kite (and Rhombus) into Rectangle

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Parallelogram Transform

1) What happens to the red parallelogram when you translate part of it (using the slider) 2) How do the red and blue figures compare? What is the same? What is different? 3) Slide point E on top of point A. Do you notice anything?
– Jed Butler

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