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Perimeter
Area
Volume
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
What units would you use to measure the perimeter of an object?
What are centimeters, inches, feet, yards, meters, miles or kilometers?
100
square centimeters, square inches, square feet, square yards, square meters, square miles, or square kilometers
What are units that can be used for area?
100
Volume is used to measure these kinds of shapes.
What are 3-D?
200
This is how you find the perimeter of an object.
What is measure the length of each side and then add the side lengths together?
200
Area is used to measure these kinds of shapes.
What is 2-D?
200
This is a synonym for volume.
What is capacity?
300
The perimeter of a triangle that is 3 inches on each side.
What is 9?
300
paving a basketball court, carpeting a room, and putting wallpaper up
What are examples of when you would need to find area?
300
This is one strategy for finding the volume.
What is count the cubes? What is length x width x height?
400
putting borders on bulletin boards, building a fence, placing tiles around a swimming pool
What are activities that require finding the perimeter?
400
This is a strategy for finding the area of a figure.
What is count all of the squares inside of the figure?
400
These are the kind of units used to measure volume.
What are cubic units?
500
This part of the word perimeter means "around".
What is peri-?
500
multiply the length by the width
Besides counting squares, what is another way to find the area of a square or rectangle?
500
In questions about this, the key word "covering" should be underlined.
What is area?
500
In questions about this, the key word "filling" should be underlined.
What is volume?