Lesson Plan
Finding Area
Looking for a fun way to reinforce multiplication and area finding skills? This hands-on lesson gives students a chance to create their own multiplication equations by making rectangular models.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to add and multiply square units in order to find the area of a rectangle.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Pick up six square tiles. Using a projector, display three of them in a connected row, and display the other three in a scattered group. Ask students to identify which group shows an area, or square unit total, of three. (You'll be defining the term "area" more clearly later on in the lesson.)
- After hearing their answers, explain that both groups have a total area of three. Each tile is a square unit, and regardless of how they're positioned, three tiles will always equal three square units.
- On your display, write "3 sq. units" above the row of tiles and "1 sq. unit" above each tile in the scattered group.