Area, Volume, Perimeter

Area

100

What is the formula for area of a rectangle?

length times width 

200

What is the definition of area?

The amount of space there is on a flat surface.

300

What is the area of an object with a length of 12 inches and a width of 6 inches?

72 inches²

400

Which situation would you find area for? Buying a pool cover or filling a pool with water?

Buying a pool cover.

500

What is the formula to find the area of a circle? (Very hard!)

r² x 3.14

or

r² x pi

Perimeter

100

How do you find the perimeter of a rectangle?

Measure all sides and add them together.

200

What is the definition of perimeter?

The line forming the boundary of a closed object.

300

What is the perimeter of an object with 2 sides that measure 13 inches and 2 other sides that measure 21 inches?

68 inches

400

Which situation would you find perimeter for? Building a fence or laying carpet in a room.

Building a fence.

500

What do we call the perimeter around a circle?

Circumference. 

Volume

100

What is the formula for volume?

l x w x h

or

B x h

200

What is the definition of volume?

The amount of space an object takes up.

300

What is the volume of an object with a length of 10 cm, a width of 5 cm and a height of 3 cm?

150 cm³

400

Which situation would you need to find volume for? Filling a storage garage with boxes or mowing the lawn?

Filling a storage garage with boxes.

500

How would we find the volume of a cylinder? (Very hard!)

Find the area of the circle of the base and multiply it by the height.

Word Problems

100

Mary and Tom walked around the neighborhood and back to their house. After their walk they wanted to find the distance of how far they walked. Were they finding perimeter, area, or volume by measuring their walk distance?

Perimeter.

200

Bill and Betty went to the carpet store. The room they needed to carpet was 10 ft by 12 ft. The carpet came in strips of 2 feet x 3 feet. How many strips of carpet did they need?

20 strips of carpet.

300

Tom and Bill were filling the trunk with boxes. The trunk measured 2 feet by 5 feet by 5 feet. The boxes measured 5 feet by 2 feet by 1 foot. How many boxes could fit in the trunk?

5 boxes.

400

Sara and Sally knew the volume of the box was 150 feet³ , the length was 10 feet, and the height was 3 feet. What was the width?

The width of the box was 5 feet.

500

Peter and Tom have a shed. The floor of the shed measures 96 feet². The length of the shed is 8 feet, what is the width of the shed?

12 feet