ClassFlow
Class Flow: Area Perimeter
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart demonstrates how to calculate perimeters and areas of simple compound shapes that can be split into rectangles.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Learning From Limbo
Using a limbo set, students will participate in learning about perimeter and area of a rectangle. Students will explore how the area and perimeter changes as the limbo pole is lowered. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Math Today Wildfires Nearly Snuffed
Students can use the data to explore the relationship between area and perimeter for rectangles and circles and they will make generalizations about the shape of the rectangle that will produce the smallest perimeter.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Scale Factor
The interactive applet allows learners to explore the relationships between side length, area, and perimeter. Students see how changes in the scale factor influence the ratio of areas and perimeters. [Requires Java.]
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Perimeter of a Rectangle
Learn about the perimeter of a rectangle with this handy reference guide. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and interactive activities that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Dimensions and Area
In this activity, students discover the relationship between a change in the dimensions of a rectangle and the change in the corresponding area.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Shape: Area of a Rectangle
Determine the area of a rectangle by multiplying the sides.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Shape Builder
This activity operates in one of two modes: auto draw and create shape mode, allowing you to explore relationships between area and perimeter.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Converting Square Units
In this task, 6th graders must inches to feet in order to find the area of a rectangular board and explain the error in the calculations made by the board owner. Aligns with 6.RP.A.3.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Painting a Barn
This task asks students to determine the area of the exterior walls of a barn and to calculate how many gallons of paint would be needed to cover them, as well as the cost of the paint. Aligns with 6.G.A and 6.RP.A.3.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Multiply Monomials by Polynomials: Area Model
Use area to understand how to multiply monomials by polynomials. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Skate Off: Final Round, Inez vs. Rimm
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad learns what happens to the area of a rectangle when the shape enclosed by the perimeter changes.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Fraction Multiplication and Area
This fifth-grade lesson explores the area of a rectangle with fractional side lengths. We tile the rectangle with unit rectangles and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths. We multiply...
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.
The Math League
The Math League: Area and Perimeter
This tutorial provides a brief introduction about what area is, then gives the formulas for area of a square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, triangle, and circle. Examples of each formula are provided.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Perimeter Explorer
Use this applet to find the perimeter of a variety of shapes with the same or different areas.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Shape Surveyor (Area and Perimeter of Rectangles)
Players are given the lengths of two sides of a series of rectangles and must calculate the area or perimeter of each rectangle.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Area Rectangle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to solve the area for various rectangles on graph paper. It asks the students to define and solve for area using the appropriate formula.
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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 3
The purpose of this task is to ask students to write expressions and to consider what it means for two expressions to be equivalent. Aligns with 6.EE.A.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Area & Perimeter: Math Worksheets
This tool allows you to create worksheets of word problems at varying levels of difficulty where students must calculate the area or perimeter of different polygon shapes. You can choose to set up the page using any of these polygon...
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Area Versus Perimeter
This lesson contrasts area and perimeter and has varied exercises for students about both concepts.
Quia
Ixl Learning: Rectangles
Brush up on your math skills relating to rectangles then try some practice problems to test your understanding.