Math Concepts & Skills > Area and Perimeter

Blue Print
Students design a scale model of their classroom.

Carpet Caper
Students determine the number of rolls of carpet needed to cover a basement, and how to cut the carpet so it results in the least number of seams.

Miss Guy's Puppy Problem
Given an amount of fencing, students determine the largest pen possible using all of the fencing.

Mrs. Hasson's Decorating Dilemma
Students determine the number of tiles needed to cover a floor.

Party Seating
Students determine how to arrange tables and seating for a party.

Playground Committee
Students design a walkway from the playground for less than $500.

Post Office Display
Students determine the amount of space needed to display enlargements of stamps they created.

Sandbox for Geoffrey
Given an amount of building material, students determine the different size sandboxes that can be made.

Shovel, Shovel, Shovel
Three decks of various sizes need to be shoveled. The work is shared by six shovelers. Students decide how the work and pay can be fairly shared.

Stained Glass Surprise
Students figure the cost of creating a stained glass mobile in the shapes and sizes of tangram pieces.

Tangram Areas - Grandfather Tang's Story
Students recreate animal shapes using tangrams from the Grandfather Tang's Story, and find their relative areas.

Tangram Money
Students assign money values to tangram pieces.

Terrific Tiles
Given the dimension of a kitchen floor and the dimension of tiles, students determine the number of tiles needed to cover the kitchen floor.

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