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Areas from Vectors
This resource is part of "Dotty Grids - Exploring Coordinates and Vectors"
Move the blue points below to change the vectors that define the parallelogram.
See how the area changes.
Explore how the area of the parallelogram changes as you change the vectors.
If you would like some ideas of interesting questions to explore, take a look below.
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