Area Vocabulary
What is a square unit?
The area of a square with a side length of 1 unit.
What is the equation to find the area of a rectangle or square?
A=l x w
Area=length x width
Alex plants four rows of flowers. Each row has 6 flowers. How many flowers did Alex plant in all?
6 x 4=24 flowers
An office building has 4 elevators. There are 8 people in each elevator. Then 10 people get off the elevators. How many people are in the elevators now.
(4 x 8) - 10
32-10
22 people
What does a picture have to tell you what each symbol means?
key
What are square units used to measure?
Area
What is the area of a rectangle that is 8 square units long and 2 square units wide?
16 square units
A scientist places 32 corals in tanks to help a coral reef grow. There are 4 tanks. Each tank has an equal number of corals. How many corals are in each tank?
32 divided by 4
8 corals in each tank
Students collect 5 boxes of potatoes with 6 in each box. Then they put all the potatoes into bags. There are 10 potatoes in each bag. How many bags do the students need for the potatoes?
(5 x 6) divided by 10
30 divided by 10=3
There are 3 bags
What does the scale on a bar graph mean?
The difference between two numbers that are next to each other that label a graph
2-part question: Name two shapes that can have square units. Can the square units overlap?
Square, rectangle
No, they can not overlap and they can not have gaps or space between each square unit.
Mrs. Chang's has a vegetable garden that she grows 2 different vegetables in. She grows tomatoes in one part that is 5 ft long and 3 feet wide. She grows corn in the other part that is 3 feet wide and 4 feet long. What is the total area of the garden?
Tomatoes Corn
A= 5 x 3 A=3x4
A=15 A=12
Total Area=15+12
Area=27 square feet
There are 9 drawing kits on a table in the art room. Each kit has 4 pencils. How many pencils are there in all? Use "p" as your unknown.
4 x 9 = p
p=36
Olivia is training for a canoe race. During the first three weeks in May, she rides a total of 176 miles. During the last week of May, Olivia rides 9 miles each day for 7 days. How many miles in all does Olivia race in May?
176+(9 x 7) = m
176 + 63 =m
239 =m
Using the graph that your teacher has provided, how many pints of goat milk were sold on the two days with the least number of pints?
Monday=60 Friday=50
60+50=110
110 pints of goat milk
Define the words length and width.
Length is how long something is
Width is how wide something is
Yolanda's aunt sends her a rectangular piece of mola fabric. The. mola fabric has a length of 8 inches and a width of 6 inches. What is the area of the mola fabric.
A=l x w
A=8 x 6
A= 48 square inches
There are 2 classes for Mexican folk dance. There are 8 students in each class. How many students take Mexican folk dance class? Use "d" as your unknown.
2 x 8 = d
d= 16 students
Yen is earning money to buy a surfboard that costs $289. For the past 6 weeks, Yen has saved $7 each week. How much money, d, does Yen still need to save?
289=(6 x 7) + d
289=42 + d
247 = d
How many pints of goats milk were sold in all that week?
370 pints of goats milk
The amount of space a flat shape covers
Explain how you can use square tiles or multiplication to find the area of a rectangle.
You can cover a model with squares because you can just count all of the squares up. Or you can use multiplication if you know your multiplication facts.
There are 42 people in a marching band. The people form equal rows and columns. There are 6 people in each row. How many rows are there?
42 divided by 6
There are 7 rows
The art teacher has 75 paintbrushes .He gives 35 brushes to another teacher. He splits the rest equally among 8 students. How many brushes does he give to each student?
(75-35) divided by 8 =p
40 divided by 8 =p
p=5
Using the National Park Bar Graph, shown by the teacher, choose 1 of the below statements that are true.
A.)When combined, Death valley and Joshua Tree had as many visitors as Yellowstone.
B.)Yellowstone had 4 more visitors than Yosemite.
C.) The total number of visitors to all parks were 30 visitors.
A.