Area/Perimeter
What is the formula for area?
A = length x width
Area = 55 miles squared
Length = 5 miles
Width = ?
width = 11 miles
Tom has a poster with a length of 5 feet and a width of 3 feet. He wants to put a wooden frame around the poster. What length of wood will Tom need to frame his poster?
16 feet
Grams or Kilograms?
A lawnmower
kilograms
One pencil crayon weighs 5 grams. What is the weight of a box of 8 pencil crayons?
40 grams
What is the formula for perimeter?
Perimeter = length + width + length + width
Perimeter = 18 feet
Width = 5 feet
Length = ?
Length = 4 feet
Sally's pool table has an area of 36 square feet. The length of the pool table is 9 feet. What is the width of the pool table?
4 feet
Liters or Milliliters?
A full bathtub
Liters
A hot tub at a hotel can hold 450 liters of water. The owner has already filled up 148 liters in. How many more liters until the tub is filled up?
302 liters
Length = 8 meters
Width = 3 meters
Area = ?
24 square meters
Area = 48 inches squared
width = 12 inches
length = ?
Ben is painting his room. He paints 3 walls. Each wall has dimensions of 10 x 7 feet. What is the total area that Ben has to paint?
210 square feet
Choose the TWO objects that would be measured in grams:
elephant, jar of peanut butter, notebook, sofa, mattress
jar of peanut butter and notebook
A glue stick weighs 57 grams and a stapler weighs 126 grams heavier than the glue stick. What is the weight of a stapler?
183 grams
Length = 6 feet
Width = 5 feet
Perimeter = ?
22 meters
Perimeter = 24 centimeters
length = 8 centimeters
width = ?
width = 4 centimeters
Mike is building a play pen for his son. The sides of the pen are 7 feet and 4 feet. What is the perimeter of the play pen?
28 feet
Choose the TWO objects that would be measured in milliliters:
water tower, swimming pool, eyedrops, a lake, a milkshake
eyedrops and a milkshake
Bernice drank a total of 72 milliliters of water in a day out of water bottles. One water bottle holds 9 milliliters. How many water bottles did she drink?
8 water bottles
Length = 5 inches
Width = 8 inches
Area = ?
Perimeter = ?
Area = 40 inches squared
Perimeter = 26 inches
Area = 20 inches squared
Perimeter = 24 inches
Length = ?
Width = ?
Length = 10 inches
Width = 2 inches
Hannah and Sally are planting gardens. Hannah's garden is 2 x 8 feet long. Sally's garden is 4 x 4 feet long. They want to put fencing around their gardens. Who will need more fencing?
Hannah
What do grams and kilograms measure? _____
What do liter and milliliters measure? _______
mass and capacity
Why are mass and capacity word problems not really a new skill for us?
Because they ask us to add, subtract, multiply, or divide, and we've been doing those skills all year!