I chose the activity because I felt that the students needed more experience with finding the areas of shapes. The students had already completed three other activities from About Teaching Mathematics- Foot Area and Perimeter, Squaring Up, and The Perimeter Stays the Same. I decided to use it with fifth graders in a different way than suggested in the book and have described below what I did. ![]() While browsing through About Teaching Mathematics recently, I came upon an activity, Area and Perimeter, that had once been one of my favorites but that I hadn’t taught in quite some time.
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