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Scale City — Scaling up Recipes and Circles in the Real World

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
What a great big skillet you have. The resource introduces the class to the world's largest stainless steel skillet. The class creates a model of the skillet and a typical 12-inch skillet and compares the relative sizes of their areas....
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Curated OER

Finding the Surface Area of Six Rectangular Pyramids

For Students 9th - 11th
In this surface area worksheet, students solve for the surface area or six rectangular pyramids given length, width, and height of the slant face.  Solutions are provided.
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Calculating Square Area

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners engage in a study of the mathematical concept of calculating area in regular and irregularly shaped objects. The area is practiced by producing maps based upon the idea of creating a nature preserve for wild tigers. This makes...
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Recognize Area Word Problems - Guided Lesson

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Approach geometry concepts with youngsters using visual guides like this one to find area. They draw a rectangle, segmenting it into rows and columns. Scholars determine how many square units they see in the partitioned rectangle. They...
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Illinois State Board of Education

Geoboard Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle school geometers determine the area of a shape on a geoboard or dot paper and draw figures that meet given area conditions. Working as a class, they develop and discuss various ways to draw geometric shapes with specified...
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Surface Area and Volume

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
You and your class will like this lesson on using visual models to relate the volume and surface area of solid shapes. Learners construct three-dimensional forms using nets. They calculate the surface area and volume for each and then...
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Shapes and Their Insides

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Learners follow a series of instructions for drawing and coloring different shapes in order to learn the difference between the perimeter and area of a polygon. Then they are asked to find the perimeter and area of a 3x4 rectangular...
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Curated OER

Volume of Cylinders and Cones

For Students 7th - 8th
Line drawings of a circle, a cylinder, and a cone at the top of the page contain the formulae for area and volume of each shape. Learners complete the missing information in a chart that lists diameter, radius, height, and area and...
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Curated OER

Area of Shapes

For Students 4th - 6th
For this geometry worksheet, students find the area of squares, rectangles, and non traditional shapes. Students complete 5 problems on this worksheet. 
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Tantalizing Tangrams

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore "area."  In this tangram geometry and measurement activity, students arrange tangram pieces to find the area of characters presented in a story they listen to on a website.  Website information and related...
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Curated OER

Calculate Area of Squares and Rectangles

For Students 5th - 6th
In this area activity, students calculate the area of 2 squares and 1 rectangle, showing their work in a space provided. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Sides of squares

For Students 6th - 9th
In this sides of squares activity, learners find the sides of a square whose areas are given. Students complete 4 problems total.
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Area Worksheets

For Teachers 4th - 6th
With the right introductory activities, area can be an easy topic for students to understand.
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Completing the Square Algebraically

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using TI-Nspire, scholars rewrite quadratic expressions by completing the square. They change the equation into vertex form.  By the end of this lesson, they should be able to change any quadratic equation into vertex form. 
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Math Mammoth

Circle

For Students 7th - 8th
For this circle worksheet, students find the area and circumference of circles and compare their size using percents. Students determine the are of composite figures made of circles and rectangles. This one-page worksheet contains six...
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Curated OER

Counting Area

For Students 5th - 6th
For this math worksheet, students find the area of shapes by counting the number of grid paper squares inside each shape. This is a worksheet generator, the teacher controls the complexity of the shapes as well as the grid size. Answers...
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Boxes & Blocks: Square Play

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students add a new angle to block play with this spatial challenge. In this early childhood math lesson, students use creative-thinking, patterning, visual-spatial, and fine-motor skills to explore the different shapes that can be made...
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Areas of Irregular Figures

For Students 4th - 5th
In this calculation of area worksheet, students solve 3 problems in which areas of irregular figures are determined. The examples show the formula and method.
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Math Club Warm Up #17b

For Students 6th
In this area worksheet, 6th graders solve 2 problems about area, one with a square and one with a triangle; there are 4 sheets on a page.
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Pyramids and Cones

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Young mathematicians find the surface area and volume of a square pyramid and a cone. In what looks like a typical activity out of a textbook, you'll find an activity where learners find an unknown measurement of a pyramid or...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Designs

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A resource that makes for excellent group work as learners explore the area and perimeter of different complex designs made up of squares and circles. The commentary gives a clear definition of perimeter, but suggests that group members...
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Scale Drawing: Insulating an Attic

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Have your aspiring contractors compute the length of two walls in a compound-shaped attic when given a scale drawing of it and the other dimensions. They find the area, determine the number of rolls of insulation they will need to...
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Hexagonal Pattern of Beehives

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young geometers and biologists investigate the math of nature in an activity that is just the bee's knees. Participants will study the tessellations of hexagons in a beehive, along with the natural rationale behind the specific shape....
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Math Activity File

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders describe the difference between area and volume and also explain how various units of measure relate to one another.

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