High School · Expressing Geometric Properties with Equations

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.GPE.B.7

Use coordinates to compute perimeters of polygons and areas of triangles and rectangles, e.g., using the distance formula.

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Lessons that teach this standard

• Distance on the Coordinate Plane

  How to find the distance between two points using the Pythagorean theorem, where the distance formula comes from, and how to measure a polygon drawn on a grid.