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Lesson 1: Count unit squares to find area- Intro to area and unit squares
- Measuring rectangles with different unit squares
- Find area by counting unit squares
- Measuring area with partial unit squares
- Find area with partial unit squares
- Creating rectangles with a given area 1
- Creating rectangles with a given area 2
- Create rectangles with a given area
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Measuring area with partial unit squares
Lindsay finds the area of a shape by counting whole and partial unit squares. Created by Lindsay Spears.
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- What is Measuring area with partial unit squares, im confused(2 votes)
- Partial unit squares are basically not full squares dude, think of a triangle where it's perimeter lines cut through squares, you still have to include them in the total area by adding half squares or bits of squares together to make one whole square.
Just to be sure, I'm not talking about an actual square shape, I'm talking about those little squares you get in blank maths books. Hope this helps, if not.
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-area-and-perimeter/basic-geo-unit-squares-area/v/measuring-area-with-partial-unit-squares-math-3rd-grade-khan-academy(1 vote)
- How is area suppose to to be the same as perimeter?Or is it not?(1 vote)
- Area and perimeter are actually different. Think of area as a garden - it is the dirt inside of the garden. Area describes how much space is inside of a figure.
Perimeter, however, is different. Perimeter describes the outside of a figure. Think of it as a fence around a garden. It basically describes how big of a 'fence' a shape would need.
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- How can we count the partial area of a square?(1 vote)
- Here's an example:
Okay, so, a partial is 1/2 (half)
So, if there were 2 halves you would add them together, thus making 2/2 which is a whole. For each half there is you need to combine them to make a whole.
6 partials would become 3 wholes.
4 partials would become 2 wholes.
2 partials would become 1 whole, etc.
After you add all the partials together take the number you got from that and add it to the whole units within the square and that's your answer.(2 votes)
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Video transcript
- [Voiceover] Each square
on the a grid is unit square with an area of one square centimeter. So each of these squares
is one square centimeter. This is one square centimeter, and this is one square
centimeter, and so on. And now we're asked, what
is the area of the figure? By figure I'm sue they mean this bluish, purplish quadrilateral,
and we wanna know its area. And area is talking about how
much space the shape covers. How much space does this
quadrilateral cover? How many square centimeters
does the quadrilateral cover? To figure it out, we
could start by counting. Here's one. Here's one square centimeter
the quadrilateral covers, and I can keep counting like that, all of the square
centimeters that I can see. Here's two, three. Another row's got some here. Four, five, six. Down here, here's seven. Eight, nine. So there's nine full square centimeters. Nine square centimeters, but that's not the entire area. That's not everything it covers. It also covers these small parts, these triangle-shaped
little spaces of area, and so we need to count those too. Let's look over here. Let's look, if we drew
one of these triangles into a unit square, and
then we drew another one on the other half of this unit square, we would see that combined
they make one full unit square. So we can do that. We can take this triangle up here, which is half of a unit
square and combine it with this half of a unit square. So if we combine these two together, that's one more unit square. Now we have nine full unit
squares plus one more. But there's still more of
them, so we can keep combining. This half unit square
combined with the other one on the bottom makes a second unit square, and finally, there's two
more halves here, one, two, which combine to make another whole. So we have nine full unit squares plus, plus three more unit squares
that we made by combining. We made one by combining these
two, a second unit square with these two, and a
third unit square here. So we have nine full unit squares and then three more unit
squares we put together, which is a total of 12
square units or 12 square, in this case our unit is
centimeters, 12 square centimeters. Our figure, our quadrilateral
covers 12 square centimeters, so it has an area of
12 square centimeters.