Unit 6: Applying the Operations to Area & Perimeter

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Strategies

• Tiling and Grid Paper

  • Using square-inch tiles to find the area and perimeter of a figure

  • Find the area of a rectangle by tiling without gaps or overlaps

  • Multiply side lengths to determine the area of rectangles when problem solving

• Commutative and Distributive Properties:

  • Illustrate and explain that the area of a rectangle can be determined by partitioning

  • Use the sum of two smaller rectangles to find the area of a larger rectangle

• Find the unknown side lengths given the perimeter of the polygon

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