Lesson Plan
Area: Whole, Parts, and Shapes
Use this lesson to help your students learn about partitioning shapes into parts with equal areas. Students will explain rectangular shape area in fractions of a whole.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to define area in terms of fractions of a whole.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Show an image of a circle divided into four equal parts. Ask your students what they see.
- Take notes of student responses for the whole class to see. Circle terms that refer to a fraction (part, of) or the whole (the entire shape).
- Ask your class probing questions to tease out answers that prompt fraction terms, if necessary.