The fun and engaging Area of Rectangles Practice Activities and Video Lesson are perfect for your lessons, math stations, review or tutoring. This is a great Introduction to the Area of Rectangles, connecting students to their understanding of arrays. These Simple and Easy-to-Use Google Slides are designed for 3rd grade students and align to these standards: TEKS 3.6C and CCSS 3.MD.C.6 and 3.MD.C.7.A.

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The Area of Rectangles Video Lesson:

• Teaches students how to use the number of rows of unit squares and the number of unit squares in each row to find area
• Uses a variety of rectangular models
• Walks students through the Google Slides activities they will complete
• Demonstrates how to use the Shape Tool in Google Slides
• Is approximately 8 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.

Area of Rectangles Topics and Activities Include:

• Creating Multiplication Equations to Find Area
• Matching Activities
• Puzzles
• Drawing Rectangles with the Same Area and Different Side Lengths
• Application of Learning in Real-World Word Problems
• Word Problems have optional Step-by-Step support

What's Included in this Area of Rectangles Resource?

• Video Lesson on how to find the Area of Rectangles 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.6 Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).

CCSS.3.MD.C.7.A Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.

TEKS 3.6C Determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row.

This is Lesson 2 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 *This Resources*: 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: Use Area Models to Prove the Distributive Property

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