Scholastic
Scholastic Lesson Plan: New Way to Measure Area
This article describes a new approach to teaching children more than just memorizing a formula to find area and hope they don't confuse it with perimeter. This approach involves a project with real life situations....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Areas of Rectangular Composite Figures Overlap 1
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A video and practice questions where students are presented with one or more smaller rectangles within a larger one. They must calculate the area of the larger...
Other
Calculator.net: Surface Area Calculator
Use these calculator tools to find the surface area, in your choice of units, of a sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, capsule, ball cap, conical frustum, ellipsoid, or square pyramid. Includes a reference section listing...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Area of Rectangles With Fraction Side Lengths
Practice computing the areas of rectangles that have fractional side lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finding the Area of a Triangle
Sixth graders find the area of a triangle using square units and the area formula.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finding the Area of a Parallelogram
Sixth graders find the area of parallelograms by using square units and the area formula.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Find Area With Partial Unit Squares
Count unit squares and partial unit squares to find the area of shapes.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Activity: Garden Area
The learning activity explores area. Students determine the area of their garden by counting squares.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Partitioning Composite Figures Into Rectangles to Find Area 1
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to partition a shape into rectangles and add their areas together to get the area of the whole figure. Includes video...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Appropriate Tools for Measurement of Squares and Rectangles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Choose appropriate tools and units for given measurement situations involving squares and rectangles.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Area With Squares: Lesson 3
Step by step, this video lesson [2:41] will show you how to add up the number of squares that cover an object in order to find the area of a figure. It is 3 of 7 in the series titled "Finding Area with Squares."...
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: Transition From Unit Squares to Area Formula
Find the area of rectangles by multiplying side-lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Saddleback College
Algebra2go: Finding Area Problem Sets
This resource has three sets of problems. Each set has six questions for finding area of irregular shapes formed by line segments. Select a problem set, then select a question. Fill in the blank with the correct answer for each problem....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.md the Square Counting Shortcut
This is a rectangle subdivision task; ideally instead of counting each square. students should break the letters into rectangles, multiply to find the areas, and add up the areas. Aligns with 3.MD.C: CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.6 Measure...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, G Co, G Srt Unit Squares and Triangles
In this task, young scholars 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...
Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple: Area Measurement Conversions
This site allows you to type in an area of measurement you want to be converted. The site converts it for you!
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Math: Area and Perimeter
Learn how to enlarge drawings, figure out how much tile to buy to cover a specific floor, and learn about area and perimeter. These and other lesson plans are provided, including a fun interdisciplinary plan featuring dragons.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.md, 3.g, 3.nf Halves, Thirds, and Sixths
The purpose of this task is for students to use their understanding of area as the number of square units that covers a region, to recognize different ways of representing fractions with area, and to understand why fractions are...
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Count Them Up! Using the Ti 73 Explorer
In this activity, you will investigate the areas of rectangles and squares by splitting them up into unit squares and/or half-unit squares and combining them.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Area in Grid
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to count the area in a grid where each square on the grid is one square unit of area. The video is followed by practice problems covering the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Area With Halves
Fractions can be used to understand halves of a unit square.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
International System of Units: Si Base Units
This is the definitive source for information on SI base units, derived units, squares, cubes, luminosity, field strength and flux density.