Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Area of Rectangles
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.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Square Pyramid Calculator
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Counting Unit Squares to Find Area Formula
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Create Rectangles With a Given Area
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Understanding Area
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Unknown Dimensions Using Formulas Grade 7
[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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Perimeter of Squares and Rectangles
[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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Shaded Areas
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, G Co, G Srt Unit Squares and Triangles
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...
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Shaded Square
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.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Area of Triangles, Trapezoids & Parallelograms
Students solve for the area of rectangles, squares, triangles, trapezoids, and parallelograms.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Spinning Square Pyramid
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Perimeter of Squares and Rectangles: Tennis Court
[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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Increasing Wall Area
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.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Surface Area Calculator
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
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Search the Perimeter and Secure the Area
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.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Disappearing Square
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Area Rectangles
[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.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Little Squares
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.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Geometry: Polygons and Polyhedra: Quadrilaterals
This lesson focuses on quadrilaterals which can fall into multiple categories based on the number of sides and the angles.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Square Calculator
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Home Decorating
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.