How to Find Area of Shapes on a Geoboard

Here is a Power Point presentation on how one finds area on a geoboard.

This Power Point presentation is designed for a variety of different ages, but probably mostly upper elementary students would benefit best from this lesson. In the Power Point presentation, there are links that a student may go to to find more information about area on geoboards. Also, at the very end of the presentation, I have included a link to a page in which one can work with an interactive geoboard at the end of the slide show.

Here are a few links to teacher resources:

Mary Wore a Red Dress Geoboard Activity

This is an activity that is in PDF format. A teacher would read the book Mary Wore a Red Dress and then the students would construct articles of clothing for Mary on their geoboard using various shapes.

Geometry and the Geoboard

This is a lesson plan geared towards sixth graders.

Geoboards in the Classroom

This site has just some basic activities that a teacher could do with his/her students.

Links

CS255 Computers in El Ed Home Page

Link to Northern Michigan University

Laurie Matecki: lmatecki@nmu.edu