Lesson Plan: Finding the Area of a Rhombus Using Diagonals Mathematics • 6th Grade
This lesson plan includes the objectives and prerequisites of the lesson teaching students how to find the area of a rhombus in terms of its diagonal lengths as half the product of these lengths.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- use models to show that the area of a rhombus can be found using diagonal length diagonal length,
- find the area of a rhombus when given its diagonal lengths,
- solve problems involving finding the area of a rhombus using diagonals.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- finding the area of a parallelogram.