Area activities

Calculating area of a floor plan that students design themselves.

Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.

Check out this blog post with 8 great tips to help you better teach area and perimeter concepts. If you teach area and perimeter lessons, you will want to check out how to make these tricky concepts more attainable. Perfect for third grade math, fourth grade math, or fifth grade math teachers. Learn not just the best ways for teaching area and perimeter but ways to make your math lessons fun and engaging as well!

Fabulous for math revision, check out these 10 fun math dice games! Includes place value, number facts, fractions & geometry games played with dice.

7 activities to review area - download free printable math centers to review area with your students, fun math centers to review area

Hands-on ways to teach measuring perimeter and area in 3rd grade can make a world of difference for students. This Math Made Fun Unit is packed full of fun!

Use food to review area and perimeter. Free activity for third or fourth grade students to teach area. Free worksheet #math #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #handsonmath #mathcenters #mathgames #3rdgrademath #4thgrademath #mathworkhop

Make teaching students about finding the area more fun in the classroom with these five activities! Including area robots, area crowns, area dinosaurs, & more!

An Area Art Gallery- A FREE download over at Classroom Freebies too! A fun way to practice area in the classroom!

Help your students review area and perimeter. This area & perimeter practice for 3rd grade is the perfect way to get kids up and moving!

Students can draw a self portrait on a piece of graph paper and using the proportions that they have drawn, they can then calculate the area and perimeter of their portrait!

A fun activity using Cheez-Its to find area and perimeter!

Teach the concepts of area and perimeter using a fun, real-life example.

Let's talk area and perimeter. More specifically about area and perimeter of those combined shapes, complex shapes, what ever you want to call them. I remember my first year teacher I was like "This is the same as finding area and perimeter of a square or rectangle but you just combine it". Well, the spelled recipe for disaster. Ha! We got it figured out but time sure does make it easier. So. This is NOT just the same as area and perimeter of "regular shapes". I'm always looking for fun ways…

Want to know my favorite lesson to teach area and perimeter? This lesson is super engaging, and sets up my students for success for this unit!

Just a quick little post to share an anchor chart I made to help my students visualize the difference between area and perimeter. Visit {Deb} to see other awesome anchor charts (and add your own). She also has a great freebie this week!

Step into 2nd Grade with Mrs. Lemons: Happy Monday! Area Robots

Practice finding the area of an object with this Minecraft Math activity. Kids can count blocks, use arrays, or use length x width to find the area.

These area and perimeter of polygons bulletin board posters will look GREAT on your word wall and will help your 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade geometry class learn perimeter and area!

Kids love playing Island Conquer, a free pirate-themed math center game for practicing area and perimeter. Click over to Laura Candler's blog to download this freebie now!