Assessment

County Concerns

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Apply area concepts to help farmers and settle county disputes. Scholars use a given diagram and information about an insecticide spraying campaign to determine the monetary benefit to farmers. They then decide which of two counties has a larger area.

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Instructional Ideas
  • Have the class work in pairs
  • Provide pupils with an enlarged copy of the counties so they can dissect and recompose the figures into rectangles
Classroom Considerations
  • Learners need to be able to calculate areas of different types of figures
Pros
  • Pre-activity reviews concepts and skills necessary for the task
  • Teacher guide includes rubric and complete answer key
Cons
  • Although the resource provides a lot of information about pesticide spraying, it does not draw any actual conclusions
  • The two parts of the task are disjointed and not related to each other