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 challenge presented at this one-page website offers an opportunity to work with the area of a rectangle. The solution is available right on the website.

In this lesson, 3rd graders will use multiplication to find the area of a rectangle.

Students will use a swimming pool example to practice finding perimeter and area of different rectangles.

Find the area or perimeter of shapes like triangles, rectangles, parallelograms, and hexagons on the coordinate plane.

An area problem involving finding the area of a rectangle and a circle. The problem may be made into a general proof as well.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find the perimeter of squares and rectangles.

Learn how to find the surface area of various shapes square, rectangle, and triangle on this website.

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students learn how to find surface area of rectangular and triangular solids.

In this lesson, young scholars students explore locomotor and non-locomotor movement and calculate the area needed to perform the African-American dance Zudio.

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.

This lesson plan helps students understand the difference between area and volume. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.a Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it

Explore the world of quadrilaterals and their properties. Find answers to questions like what are quadrilaterals, how they are formed, easy ways to identify them, and commonly seen quadrilaterals around us.

PDF of examples for finding the area under a curve using rectangles.

In this lesson, young scholars will be required to generate a formula for volume of a rectangular prism. Students working in cooperative groups will use prior knowledge for finding area of a rectangle to determine the "amount of area in...

The resource consists of student notes, instructor notes, and an interactive activity. The activity allows learners to find the factors of a given number and then draw the product as the area of a rectangle on a grid.

Does bigger perimeter mean bigger area? Answer this question when you try this math challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. Discover how understanding area and perimeter can be useful in real world situations.

Learn how to find the areas and perimeters of triangles and special quadrilaterals.

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...

This Shodor site gives a brief explanation of factorization, and it allows you "to find all of the factorizations of a given number and then draw the product as the area of a rectangle on a grid."

Use this applet to find the perimeter of a variety of shapes with the same or different areas.