The document discusses how to calculate the area of different shapes including squares, rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, and circles. It provides the formulas for finding the area of each shape and works through examples of applying the formulas. Key formulas include: the area of a square is s2, the area of a rectangle is length x width, the area of a parallelogram is base x height, the area of a triangle is 1/2 x base x height, and the area of a circle is πr2.