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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Create Rectangles With a Given Area

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
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...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Area of Rectangles: A More Efficient Way?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will connect the concepts of counting each square unit and multiplying the side lengths to compute the area of a rectangle. They will extend this knowledge by computing a side...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Find Area With Partial Unit Squares

For Students 6th - 8th
Count unit squares and partial unit squares to find the area of shapes.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Rectangle Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this calculator if you know 2 values for the rectangle, including 1 side length, along with area, perimeter, or diagonals and you can calculate the other 3 rectangle variables. A square calculator is a special case of the rectangle...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A What? A What? A Quadrilateral

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will identify the characteristics of a quadrilateral. Students will have a chance categorize quadrilaterals into subgroups such as squares, rhombuses, rectangles, and nonregular quadrilaterals. This lesson using...
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Free Math Help

Free Math Help: Special Parallelograms: Squares, Rectangles, and Rhombuses!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Examines special parallelograms. Students learn about a rectangle, rhombus, and square. Definitions and examples with solutions are included.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Diagonals of a Rhombus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, learners learn how the diagonals of a rhombus are related. They use interactive sketches to learn about the properties of the angles and diagonals of squares, rectangles, rhombuses, parallelograms, and other...
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Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Fraction Multiplication and Area

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Determining Area of Composite Figures

For Students 7th - 8th
Given composite figures (combinations of rectangles, squares, parallelograms, trapezoids, triangles, semicircles, and quarter circles), students will be able to determine expressions for the area as well as calculate the area of the figure.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Geoboard Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Math Forum provides a set of links to sites that are related to geoboard activities. There are several great links to lessons using geoboards. The links provide insight into how to use them, including how to perform various measurements...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Perimeter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan helps students explore the mathematical concept of perimeter. Resources are available to support teacher and students.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes & Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this lesson, students will watch videos about shapes and identify shapes in their environment and in art. Links to the videos are at the bottom of the lesson overview, other material links are also provided.
eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Polygons and Polyhedra: Quadrilaterals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on quadrilaterals which can fall into multiple categories based on the number of sides and the angles.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: Quadrilaterals

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
Explore four-sided polygons called quadrilaterals on this site.

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