LESSON

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Name of the student teacher

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Name of the school
strength :
Subject
duration :
Unit
date :
Topic

Saranya P
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Govt H S S Ramapuram
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Mathematics

Area of quadrilaterals

Area of trapezium

CURRICULAR STATEMENT
To develop different dimension of knowledge information on area
of quadrilaterals through group discussion, lectural method ,
explanation and evaluation by questioning ,participation in group
discussion , reporting and presentation

CONTENT ANALYSIS
TERMS : trapezium ,triangle parallelogram ,area ,height
FACTS :

A quadrilateral is a four sided closed figure.

Trapezium is a quadrilateral.
One pair of opposite sides of a trapezium are parallel.
Triangle has three sides, three angles and three edges.
Opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal.
The opposite sides of a parallelogram are parallel.

CONCEPT :

area of trapezium

DEFINITION :
A trapezium is a four sided closed figure having only one pair of
opposite sides are parallel.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
The student will be able to ,
1. Recall relative knowledge information about quadrilaterals.
2. Discribe about the peculiarities of quadrilaterals.
3. Interpret about quadrilaterals.
4. Exemplify different situations of quadrilaterals.
5. Execute the above concept.
6. Organize different elements that fit in a situation.
7. Judge the appropriateness .
8. Generate with alternate method.
9. Perform in arithmetic skill and geometric skill.
10.
Accept the beauty of mathematical principles.

PRE REQUISITES
Pupils have knowledge about two dimensional figures,
triangle and trapezium.
Pupils have knowledge about how to find the area of the
triangle and parallelogram.

TEACHING LEARNING AIDS

Cardboard model of the trapezium , triangle and
parallelogram.
Chart containing the figure and the definition of trapezium.
Flash card containing the formula of the area of trapezium.
Activity card.
Common classroom equipments.

Classroom process

Pupils response

Introductory activity
To check the student previous knowledge
about geometry, teacher asked the
students, what is geometry?
Geometry is the study of shapes. It is Pupils listening carefully
originated from two greek words geo and
metry. Geo means earth and metry
means the study of measure of earth.
Euclid is the father of geometry. Teacher
asked
Activity 1
Pupils looking carefully and
By showing the cardboard model of find their peculiarities.
parallelogram and triangle, teacher ask
them to find their peculiarities.
Pupils replied they are two
What are the peculiarities of the above dimensional
figures
.by
model? teacher asked
finding the area we can
understand their size.

Activity 2

Pupils trying to make the

trapezium and finally they
Teacher giving the cardboard model of make the trapezium.
the triangle and a parallelogram to
students and ask them to make a
trapezium using these two.
Teacher make a trapezium using triangle Pupils replied,
and a parallelogram and ask the students It is a quadrilateral.

what
are
trapezium ?

the

peculiarities

of

How to find the area of this figure ?

teacher asked

What is the equation of the area of a

parallelogram? Teacher asked
What is the equation of the area of a
triangle?
Then can you say what is the area of
trapezium?

Teacher drawing a trapezium on the

blackboard and dividing it into a
parallelogram and a triangle and
explained,

a One pair of opposite sides

are
parallel.

By adding the area of a

triangle
and
a
parallelogram, we get the
area of this figure.
Pupils replied ; base x
height

Pupils replied ; bh
Pupils replied ;
base x height + bh

The upper side of the parallelogram is

equal to the upper side of the trapezium.
We denote the upper side of the
parallelogram as a . then the base of
the parallelogram is also a. we denote
h is the height of the parallelogram.
a
Pupils replied; ah

a
then what is the area of a parallelogram ?
teacher asked
if we denote the base of the trapezium as
Pupils replied ; b-a
b then what is the base of the triangle?
Teacher asked
a

Pupils replied ; h

h
b-a
a

Here what is the height of the

parallelogram? Teacher asked.
Then we can see that the height of the
parallelogram is also same as the height
of the triangle .
What is the area of this triangle?

Area of triangle =1/2 (b-a)

h

Pupils replied ;
ah + (b-a)h

From this what is the area of the

trapezium ?

Teacher simplify the equation on the

blackboard.
Area of trapezium = ah + (b-a) h
= ah + bh ah
= ah + bh
= h (a + b )
Teacher showing the flash card containing
equation
AREA OF TRAPEZIUM =

Pupils reading the flash

card

h(a+b)

Pupils listening carefully

What do you understand from this

equation? Teacher asked
Ie; the area of the trapezium is equal to
the half of the product of the sum of its
parallal sides and distance between
them.
Teacher showing the chart containing
definition

Pupils reading carefully

THE AREA OF THE TRAPEZIUM IS

EQUAL TO THE HALF OF THE
PRODUCT OF THE ITS PARALLAL
SIDES AND DISTANCE BETWEEN
THEM
Pupils trying to solve the
problems

Activity -3
Teacher give some activity card
containing some problems to solve to
the students.

EVALUATION PROCEDURE
REVIEW
What are the peculiarities of parallelogram , triangle and
trapezium?
What is the equation for finding the area of parallelogram,
triangle and trapezium?

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY

Construct an another method for finding the area of the

trapezium.