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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Area of Rectangles

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Find area of rectangles and squares by multiplying side lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Square Pyramid Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this calculator to determine the volume, surface area, or other figure for a square pyramid, given the other numbers. Users set their parameters for two known variables of the pyramid and find what the unknown amounts would be.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Counting Unit Squares to Find Area Formula

For Students 2nd - 4th
This tutorial includes a video, questions and explanations around using unit squares to see why multiplying side-lengths can also find the area of rectangles.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Create Rectangles With a Given Area

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Practice finding the area of rectangles by counting unit square. Create rectangles with a given area by covering unit squares. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video...
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Understanding Area

For Students 2nd - 4th
Compare the amount of unit squares that cover figures. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video tutorial, or receive hints related to the concept of area.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Unknown Dimensions Using Formulas Grade 7

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Given a perimeter or area of a figure, use formulas to solve for the unknown or missing dimensions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Perimeter of Squares and Rectangles

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on finding the perimeter of rectangles and squares.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Shaded Areas

For Students 6th - 8th
Find the areas of shaded regions which are combinations of squares, triangles, and circles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, G Co, G Srt Unit Squares and Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, learners are shown three unit squares and two line segments connecting two pairs of vertices. They are asked to find the area of a triangle formed by intersecting lines. They can solve it using coordinate geometry or...
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Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Shape: Area by Counting Squares

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Determine the area of a shape.
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Activity
Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Shaded Square

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A problem of finding the fraction of a square that is shaded given criterion. Students will have to use their mathematical reasoning and triangle solving skills to solve this area problem.
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Unit Plan
Mr. Martini's Classroom

Mr. Martini's Classroom: Area of Triangles, Trapezoids & Parallelograms

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students solve for the area of rectangles, squares, triangles, trapezoids, and parallelograms.
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Spinning Square Pyramid

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about the properties of a square-based pyramid and the formulas for surface area and volume. The learning resource consists of facts and an interactive spinning square pyramid. Includes several multiple-choice questions.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
In this multi-day activity, 3rd graders make 3 different models of an orphanage floor plan using Google Drawing, Virtual Graph paper, and a construction of rectilinear shapes, to calculate the area of each room using units square.
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Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Perimeter of Squares and Rectangles: Tennis Court

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students move the points for the lengths of sides to determine the perimeter. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Increasing Wall Area

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a problem at a museum that has one large square gallery. The director wants to divide this room down the middle into four smaller square rooms.
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Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Surface Area Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Online calculator to calculate the surface area of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, spherical cap, and triangular prism
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Search the Perimeter and Secure the Area

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson will not only help students compare and contrast the concepts of area and perimeter, but it will also move toward the concept that area is maximized while minimizing perimeter with a square.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Disappearing Square

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This one page website explains how to find the area of a triangle with an interactive graphic. It then offers a challenge. The solution is available right at the website.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Area Rectangles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will understand area measured in square centimeters. They will understand and use the formula in words for the area of a rectangle.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Little Squares

For Students 3rd - 8th
What are square numbers? Use tiles at this one page website to discover the pattern of square numbers. See if you can solve the challenge. Once you have your solution you can check the solution given right at the website.
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eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Polygons and Polyhedra: Quadrilaterals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on quadrilaterals which can fall into multiple categories based on the number of sides and the angles.
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Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Square Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this square calculator to find the side length, diagonal length, perimeter, or area of a geometric square. Given any 1 variable you can calculate the other 3 unknowns.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Home Decorating

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit is designed to show students that geometry really does apply to the real world. By taking viewers through a home decoration project, students learn how to calculate area of a rectangle and circle.