Hands on area activities

Hands on Fun with Area and Perimeter - Check out these teaching ideas to plan a hands on lesson about area and perimeter that's sure to be lots of fun!

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

Hands on activities and projects, games, manipulatives, books, videos, lessons and more for teaching area and perimeter in elementary school

These FREE download area robots from Amy Lemons are a super cute way to math to your students. They are fun, and the kids can color their robots. There is also a sheet where your students tell how many boxes of the grid papers make up the different parts of their robot. These area robots were a hit in my math class, especially with the boys.

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…

If you teach upper elementary math, then you probably need to teach area and perimeter. This blog post shares a collection of ideas for teaching area and perimeter, curated from several upper elementary bloggers! Click through to read more and get links!

If you find your students (and you!) getting a little bored with the math curriculum, try adding food to your lessons. 1. Appetizing Assignments Grab some snacks and lots of math problems. The problems could come from students' math books, task cards, or worksheets. Assign a $ value to each math problem. Then assign a $ amount to the snacks, and put them on display. Students solve problems correctly in order to get enough $ to buy the desired snack. Possibilities for distributing the…

8 tips for teaching area and perimeter lessons to help you guide your students toward deeper area and perimeter understanding and mastery.

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