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BBC

Bbc: Area in General

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
You can pick up some valuable pointers on how to find the area of a triangle, rectangle, and other quadrilaterals. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite," and check your understanding.
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Other

Calculator.net: Surface Area Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Activity: Garden Area

For Students 3rd - 5th
The learning activity explores area. Students determine the area of their garden by counting squares.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Lesson Plan: New Way to Measure Area

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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....
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Area

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan helps students explore the mathematical concept of area and features resource links to further learning. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.a Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Converting Square Units

For Teachers 6th Standards
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.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Finding Areas of Polygons

For Teachers 6th Standards
This task presents drawings of polygons on square grids and asks students to calculate their area. They will need to use a few strategies, including decomposing and recombining shapes. Aligns with 6.G.A.1.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Calculating the Surface Area of Pyramids

For Students 6th - 8th
Surface area of pyramids is explored in this video resource. The lesson includes three detailed examples using a square, hexagonal, and triangular pyramid.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Market Place: Area

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
On this interactive site students learn to calculate the area of a rectangle and to use the correct notation.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Square Pyramid Calculator

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Other

Math Prof: Area & Volume of a Square Pyramid

For Students 6th - 8th
Use the calculator to find the surface area and volume of a square pyramid, then click on the link to see an explanation with examples.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Surface Area Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
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
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Math: Area and Perimeter

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Review of Area

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of calculating the area of squares, rectangles, and triangles for fifth graders. It also includes problems that work backwards from the area to find missing dimensions. It...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
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.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Rhombus Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Calculate certain variables of a rhombus depending on the inputs provided. Calculations include side lengths, corner angles, diagonals, height, perimeter, and area of a rhombus.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Square Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Area & Perimeter: Math Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Metric Area

For Students 4th - 6th
The relationships between metric units of area are explained, with examples of how to calculate area.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Home Decorating

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Regular Polygon Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this calculator to calculate properties of a regular polygon. Enter any 1 variable plus the number of sides or the polygon name. Calculates side length, inradius, circumradius, area, and perimeter.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Parallelogram Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Calculate certain variables of a parallelogram depending on the inputs provided. Calculations include side lengths, corner angles, diagonals, height, perimeter, and area of parallelograms.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Find Perimeter by Counting Unit Squares

For Students 2nd - 4th
Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle from its side lengths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Silenced Songbirds

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students calculate the probable number of Golden-Cheeked Warblers present in a particular area. Students prepare a marked map, calculate the number of square miles in the marked area, and estimate the number of birds...