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Lesson Plan

Multiplication and Area

Introduce your students to area and teach them to use the formula **Area = Length x Width** within the context of real world problems.
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to find the area of a rectangle using addition and multiplication in the context of real-world problems.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Hold up a piece of white 8x10 paper. Ask students, "How can we measure the entire surface of this paper?"
  • Demonstrate what the area is using paint as a visual and explain, "You may know how to measure lines, like the sides of this piece of paper (paint a thin line along each side of the paper), but when we measure the space inside a shape, we need to use a special formula. This is called the area (paint the entire surface of the paper) and today, we are going to learn how to measure it using square units."
  • Hang the painted paper on the board to revisit later.