Area of Composite Figures and Shaded Regions Maze – Geometry Activity

This self-checking geometry maze is practice with area of composite figures and shaded regions. Students work their way through by decomposing complex shapes into rectangles, triangles, circles and semicircles, then applying the correct formulas to find each area.

What’s included

• Printable maze worksheet (15 to 20 minutes of practice)
• Answer key for grading or student self-checking
• Teacher tips for differentiation and extensions

Differentiation ideas

From the teacher tips:

• Support: provide a visual formula sheet or color-coding guide
• Challenge: have early finishers design their own composite figure maze

How to use it

Low prep. Print and go. Use it for classwork, early finishers, sub plans or test review. Because the maze is self-checking, students are accountable for each answer along the way.

Quick facts

• Skill: area of composite figures and shaded regions
• Grades: 8–10
• CCSS: 7.G.B.6
• Answer key: included

Bundles and related resources

This maze can be found in my High School Geometry Unit on Area.

Free resources

Get my free Warm Up Slides templates.

Terms of use

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