In today’s lesson, we explored how to find the area of compound shapes, which are formed by combining different geometric figures, such as triangles and rectangles. We discussed various methods to separate these shapes to calculate their areas more easily, focusing on right-angle triangles and parallelograms. The lesson included examples to illustrate the process of adding or subtracting areas from combined shapes. Finally, we applied formulas for calculating the area of parallelograms and trapezoids to find the total area of complex figures created from simpler shapes.