Area Basics
What is area?
The amount of space inside a 2-dimensional shape. How much space it takes up.
A square has a length of 9. What is the area of the square in square units?
81 sq units
6. What is the total area in square units?
42 Square Units
What is the formula for finding area?
A = L x W
10. A square sandbox has sides that are 5 feet long. What is the area of the sandbox?
25 Square feet
7. What is the area in square units?
24 Square Units
Provide 3 real-life examples of area
1. Painting a wall
2. Laying tile on the floor
3. Making a poster or banner
Yuvi’s mom is having the bedroom floor retiled. The area of each square tile is 1 square foot. The bedroom has 4 rows of tile, with 8 tiles in each row. What is the area of the bedroom floor in square feet?
32 Square Feet
8. The rest of the model above will be divided into equal-sized squares. What is the area of the figure?
A. 5 units sq
B. None
C. 8 units sq
D. 20 units sq
D. 20 Units Squared
A rectangle measures 8 cm by 7 cm. What is the area, in square cm, of the rectangle?
56 Square Cm
Which two statements are true?
A. Rectangle A and B are the same size
B. Rectangle B has a bigger area than Rectangle D
C. Rectangle A and C are the same size
D. Rectangle B has the biggest area
B and C
9. Ms. Blankenship is finding the area of a table. She began to lay square tiles to find the area, but ran out.
What is the area of the rectangle?
56 Square tiles
Lucia is building a rectangular flower bed to grow flowers. The area of the bottom of the flower bed has 10 tiles with 9 tiles in each row. What is the area, in square feet of the bottom of the flower bed?
90 square feet
Xavier’s family is building an addition onto a rectangular house. He is adding a rectangular section shown.
What is the total area of the house in square units?
How many square units larger is the original part of the house than the new addition?
1. 106 Square Units
2. 94 Square Units
11. What is the area of the shape?
32 Square Cm