Area activities

An Area Art Gallery- A FREE download over at Classroom Freebies too! A fun way to practice area in the classroom!

8 tips for teaching area and perimeter lessons to help you guide your students toward deeper area and perimeter understanding and mastery.

In this blog post I will go over the third grade common core math standards 3.MD.5 – 3.MD.6 and provide you with activities you can use with your students. Measurement & Data // 3.MD.5 & 3.MD.6 I understand that the area of a plane shape can be measured in square units. I can measure area […]

Practice finding the area of an object with this Minecraft Math activity. Kids can count blocks, use arrays, or use length x width to find the area.

A fun activity using Cheez-Its to find area and perimeter!

These FREE download area robots from Amy Lemons are a super cute way to math to your students. They are fun, and the kids can color their robots. There is also a sheet where your students tell how many boxes of the grid papers make up the different parts of their robot. These area robots were a hit in my math class, especially with the boys.

In this blog post I will go over the third grade common core math standards 3.MD.5 – 3.MD.6 and provide you with activities you can use with your students. Measurement & Data // 3.MD.5 & 3.MD.6 I understand that the area of a plane shape can be measured in square units. I can measure area […]

Area and Perimeter game for 2 or 3 players. Each player chooses a color pencil they will use in the game. Players take turns rolling the dice, using the numbers that they rolled to draw the perimeter of a rectangle or square & writing the area in the middle of the shape. Game ends when players run out of room to draw. Winner is the player who has used the largest area/most squares.

Want to know my favorite lesson to teach area and perimeter? This lesson is super engaging, and sets up my students for success for this unit!