Area
What are the correct units for measuring the area of a rug with side lengths measured in meters?
Square meters
What are the correct units for measuring the volume of a tissue box with dimensions measured in inches?
Cubic inches
The woods behind Jerry's house were 6 miles wide and 3 miles long. What is the area of the woods?
18 sq. miles
Measuring the distance from the swing set to the slide would be this type of measurement.
What is length?
An envelope from the post office is 4 inches wide and 6 inches long. What is the area of the envelope?
24 sq. inches
A bedroom has a length of 11 feet, a width of 13 feet, and a height of 8 feet. What is the volume of the bedroom?
1,144 cubic feet
How much space is taken up by a box that is 15 cm long, 20 cm tall, and 12 cm wide?
3,600 cubic cm
Calculating the amount of space in a moving box would be this type of measurement.
What is volume?
A rectangle has an area of 30 sq. meters and a length of 5 meters. How wide is the rectangle?
6 meters
What is the volume of the figure on Prism Pile Up card 17?
52 cubic cm
I have a box that has a width of 2 1/2 feet and a length of 4 feet. The box is 3 feet tall. What is the volume of my box?
30 cubic feet
Determining how much carpet it would take to cover your bedroom floor would be this type of measurement.
What is area?
A square picture frame has an area of 100 sq. inches. How long is each side?
10 inches
A fish tank has a volume of 3,000 cubic inches. The base of the fish tank is 20 inches by 10 inches. How tall is the fish tank?
15 inches
Name a real life situation in which finding area would be helpful.
Answers vary.
A piece of wrapping paper has an area of 150 sq. cm. The width of the wrapping paper is 30 cm. What is the length?
50 cm
A cube has a volume of 27 cubic feet. What are the dimensions of each side?
3 feet
Billy is painting a wall of his bedroom. The wall is 8 feet by 12 feet. There is a doorway in one wall that is 7 feet by 2 1/2 feet. How many square feet of paint is needed for the wall? Remember, you wouldn't paint an open doorway...
78 1/2 square feet
Name a real life situation in which finding volume would be helpful.
Answers vary.