Basic Area
What are the 3 different ways to find the area of a rectangle or square?
1. Counting unit squares
2. Tiling
3. Multiplying length x width
The office has a length of 9 feet and a width of 6 feet. What is the area of the office?
54 feet2
The bathroom had a length of 8 feet and a width of 6 feet. What is the area of the bathroom?
48 square feet
What do you know about the sides of a square?
What is the area of a square whose side length is 4cm?
All sides are equal!
16cm2
The cafeteria measures 40 yards by 6 yards. What is the area of the cafeteria?
240 yards2
The soccer field has a length of 40 meters and a width of 9 meters. What is the area of the whole soccer field?
360 square meters.
Find the area of a rectangle that has:
Length: 7ft
Width: 4ft
42ft2
Dylan needs a rug to cover 27 square feet. What could the dimensions of his rug be?
9 feet long and 3 feet wide.
7 meters x 6 meters.
What do you use to tile a rectangle or square? What are they called?
Unit squares!
Mia had a garden that was 6 feet long and 5 feet wide. She wanted to plant carrots in half of her garden and cucumbers in the other half of her garden. What would be the area of the garden filled with carrots?
15 feet2
Athena has 2 rugs. One rug is 7 feet long and 4 feet wide and the other rug is 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. If she pushes the rugs together so that the edges touch, what is the total area of the 2 rugs?
46 square feet.
If you are tiling a space, in order to find the area, you cannot have GAPS or _____. Model this with a picture or image.
OVERLAPS!
Jenna's yard measures 8 meters by 5 meters. They build a swimming pool in the middle of the yard that measures 4 meters by 3 meters. What is the area of the yard that surrounds the pool?
28 meters2
Owen has a piece of paper that measures 9 cm by 8 cm. He cuts out a square from the middle of the paper that measures 3 cm by 5 cm. What is the new area of the piece of paper?
57 square cm.