7th Grade - Parallelograms and Trapezoids

Today we looked at two more shapes -- parallelograms and trapezoids. Use your textbook to remind you of the examples we covered in class. 

Below are two videos that might be helpful in understanding the formulas we discussed today.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-perimeter/basic-geo-area-perimeter-polygon/v/area-of-a-parallelogram

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-perimeter/basic-geo-area-perimeter-polygon/v/area-of-a-trapezoid-1

Homework: Exercise 12.3 (page 73) # 1

Exercise 12.4 (page 77) # 1