Hands on area activities

Make teaching students about finding the area more fun in the classroom with these five activities from Amy Lemons! These learning ideas include area robots, area crowns, area dinosaurs, and more! Your elementary students are going to love building their math skills with these fun, engaging activities!

Hands on activities and projects, games, manipulatives, books, videos, lessons and more for teaching area and perimeter in elementary school

10 multiplication games and activities for teaching multiplication. Students will love learning their multiplication facts, building fluency and strategies.

I love teaching area and perimeter! These geometry concepts lend themselves to some really fun hands-on activities, which is something I always enjoy! Here are some of my favorite activities to teach area and perimeter: 1. Area and Perimeter Songs Perimeter Around the Area by Bazillion - This one has really cool cats and music. The cats either travel around the perimeter of buildings or stay inside their area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU8aWpRd6Qw Area and Perimeter by Flocabulary…

If you teach upper elementary math, then you probably need to teach area and perimeter. This blog post shares a collection of ideas for teaching area and perimeter, curated from several upper elementary bloggers! Click through to read more and get links!

Let me show you 3 ways for reviewing area and perimeter with my students: a hands on fun scavenger hunt, an area and perimeter game and Google Sides.

If you find your students (and you!) getting a little bored with the math curriculum, try adding food to your lessons. 1. Appetizing Assignments Grab some snacks and lots of math problems. The problems could come from students' math books, task cards, or worksheets. Assign a $ value to each math problem. Then assign a $ amount to the snacks, and put them on display. Students solve problems correctly in order to get enough $ to buy the desired snack. Possibilities for distributing the…

Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.

Are you wondering how to introduce area to your 3rd-grade students? Do you like teaching with manipulatives? This hands-on activity teaches kids about the basics of area: unit squares, tiling & counting squares, & transitioning students to the multiplication model. Use building bricks to show your students how to find the area of rectangles & irregular shapes. Then, use the free worksheet to show them how to partition & tile shapes on paper and to find area of rectangles using…