How come a bench is able to support your weight and resist the gravity pulling it towards the earth? How do buildings manage to stay upright? And how do all of those shapes stick together? When you can find the smaller structures hidden inside a building’s design, you can also see how the architect used them in the best way possible to make that building strong.

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  • Lesson 6

    Decompose shapes into rectangles to determine the perimeter of the composite shape using the perimeter formula for rectangles. Decompose shapes into rectangles to determine the perimeter of the composite shape.

  • Lesson 7

    The axolotl lives in only one place outside captivity: the waters of Lake Xochimilco, in Mexico City. Now, a team of scientists is working to secure its future by looking to its past.

  • Lesson 07

    Decompose shapes into rectangles to determine the area of the composite shape using the area formula for rectangles. Decompose shapes into rectangles to determine the area of the composite shape.