Practice with PRANCER

  1. Use 4 one-inch tiles to build a rectangular pen for Prancer.
  1. Draw or color your pens on the grid paper below and

numbereach pen.

  1. How many pens can you build? _____

STOP

  1. Record the number of inches Prancer will walk around the edge/perimeter of each of your pens. (You may not need the entire chart)

Pen # / Number of Tiles Used to Build the Pen / Perimeter (in inches)

STOP

  1. Which of your pens will allow Prancer to walk the longest distance around the perimeter?

______

Sketch that pen below:

  1. Use 8 one-inch tiles to build a rectangular pen for Prancer.
  1. Draw or color your pens on the grid paper and number each pen.
  1. How many pens can you build? ______
  1. Record the number of inches Prancer will walk around the edge/perimeter of each of your pens. (You may not need to fill in the entire chart)

Pen # / Number of Tiles Used to Build the Pen / Perimeter (in inches)
  1. Which of your pens will allow Prancer to walk the longest distance around the perimeter?

______

Sketch that pen below:

STOP

  1. Use 10 one-inch tiles to build a rectangular pen for Prancer on the next page.
  1. Draw or color your pens on the grid paper on the next page and number each pen.
  1. How many pens can you build? ______
  1. Record the number of inches Prancer will walk around the edge/perimeter of each of your pens. (You may not need to fill in the entire chart)

Pen # / Number of Tiles Used to Build the Pen / Perimeter (in inches)
  1. Which of your pens will allow Prancer to walk the longest distance around the perimeter?

______

Sketch that pen below:

  1. If your pen looks like this and each square is 1 inch, how far would Prancer walk around the pen if he walked all the way around the edge?
  1. The perimeter of this pen would be ______
  1. How do you know this?
  1. What is the length of the pen? ______
  1. What is the width of the pen? ______

e. How can you use the numbers for the length and width to get an answer equal to the perimeter (the total distance around the edge)? Show your number sentence below:

f. What keys would you push on your calculator to make this number sentence?

  1. Is there another number sentence you could create with the length and width to get an answer equal to the perimeter? Show how you would create that number sentence on your calculator:
  1. Show that number sentence below:

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