Your students will love learning to use Area Models to represent the Distributive Property using the hands-on activities in these Google Slides. You will love the ready-made Video Lesson! This Area and Distributive Property resource is perfect to guide a whole class lesson or to use for math stations, review or tutoring. This Simple and Easy-to-Use lesson is designed for 3rd grade students and aligns to CCSS 3.MD.C.7c.

What Teachers are saying:

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The Video Lesson:

• Teaches students how to create equations from models to prove the distributive property
• Teaches students how to use the "fill color" tool in Google Slides to shade models that represent equations
• Walks students through the Google Slides activities they will complete
• Is approximately 5 minutes
• Student Devices must have access to You-Tube to view the Video Lesson

⭐Many of the slides are self-checking, so students can work through the activity with confidence.

Activities Include:

• Using Tools in Google Slides to shade rectangles to Match Equations
• Engaging practice with Movable Pieces
• Matching Activities
• Creating Equations to Match Models

What's Included?

• Video Lesson with Activity Instructions
• 13 Interactive Activities
• Teacher Key in separate Google Slides™ doc that can be assigned to students to check their work at home with their parents
• PDF with a link to make a copy of the Google Slides™ in your Google Drive
• Directions on how to assign the Google Slides™ activity to students in Google Classroom™

Standards Alignment

CCSS.3.MD.C.7c Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and b + c is the sum of a × b and a × c. Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.

This is Lesson 6 in a comprehensive bundle that covers all the area topics your students need to learn.

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Lessons in the Digital Area Bundle Include:

Area Lesson 1: Understand the Concept of Area by filling Rectangles with Square Units

Area Lesson 2: Find Area by Multiplying the Number of Rows by the number of Unit Squares in Each Row

Area Lesson 3: Multiplying Whole Number Side Lengths to find Area

Area Lesson 4: Area of Composite Figures using Unit Squares

Area Lesson 5: Area of Composite Figures using Side Lengths

Area Lesson 6 *This Resource*: Use Area Models to Prove the Distributive Property

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