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Lesson 4: Multiply to find areaArea of rectangles review
Review the basics of area of rectangles and try some practice problems.
What is area?
Area is the space inside of a two-dimensional shape. We can also think of area as the amount of space a shape covers.
For example, the rectangle below has an area of square units because it covers square units.
Want to learn more about the concept of area? Check out this video.
Area of a rectangle formula
To find the area of a rectangle, we multiply the length of the rectangle by the width of the rectangle.
Want to know why this formula works? Check out this video.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Practice set 1: Multiply to find area
Want to try some more area of rectangle problems? Check out this exercise:
Area of rectangles
Area of rectangles
Practice set 2: Count square units to find area
Want to try some more unit square problems? Check out these exercises:
Find area by counting unit squares
Transition from unit squares to area formula
Create rectangles with a given area
Find area by counting unit squares
Transition from unit squares to area formula
Create rectangles with a given area
Practice set 3: Challenge items
Want to try some more challenge items? Check out these exercises:
Find a missing side length when given area
Decompose figures to find area 1
Decompose figures to find area 2
Find a missing side length when given area
Decompose figures to find area 1
Decompose figures to find area 2
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- How do you figure out square feet? I need to calculate the area of a back splash so i can purchase wall tiles.(24 votes)
- for tiles times the length by the width and you get the area(14 votes)
- how do you find area of a 3D shape? is it multiplying 2D shapes? why does time pass in different time zones? how does an earthquake cause a tsunami? also, force can move things right? how can a smaller amount of force move a big object?(16 votes)
- time passes in different time zones cause of the way the earth is facing the sun(10 votes)
- If a shape is uneven, how can we work out the area?(10 votes)
- Try to break the shape into simpler shapes - ones that have areas that are easy to calculate. Calculate the area of each smaller shape, then add them all together to get the area of the whole shape.
(This is what they did up above when they had us count squares to figure out the area of the big shape.)
Each square is 1x1, so the area of each square is one.
(First step: calculating the area of the smaller shapes.)
Then when we counted all the squares, the total number of squares was also the area of the shape.
(Second step: add together all the areas of the smaller shapes.)
Hope this helps!(23 votes)
- this is a good practice but a bit tricky(15 votes)
- whats the first answer for the frist one(11 votes)
- what if you reverse the numbers of the area would the answers still be the same?🤔(9 votes)
- It would! For a rectangle, it doesn't really matter which side is length and which side is width. Because the order in which you multiply two numbers doesn't matter, the area is the same both ways. You can think of just turning a rectangle from the skinny side being horizontal to it being vertical. Nothing changes about the amount of space the rectangle takes up, so its area is the same :)(9 votes)
- It is 7 times 8 equals 56(13 votes)
- I don't have any but i like doing this it was fun.(10 votes)
- How do you figure out the wigth day dividing?(8 votes)
- Just so you all now I saw that many of you are saying how hard this is, but I have good news! If you know your multiplication chart (or at least some of it) this is easy. I at the beging thought this was hard but as I gave myself to and it its a little easy. And this is coming from someone who isn't that great at math. Hope this helps you all! If you all were helped by this please upvote. :)(8 votes)