SandHills Regional Education Consortium
Domain:Measurement and Data 3.MD6 / Mathematical Practice(s):
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. / Level of Thinking:
Applying
Anchor Standard:
Grade Specific Standard:
Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).
Information Technology Standard:
Clarifying Objectives:
Count unit squares to determine area of a plane figure.
Task Analysis / Vocabulary
· Cover a region with unit squares (without gaps or overlaps) and count to determine the area of a surface.
· Shade in unit squares (without gaps or overlaps) on grid paper and label to represent the area of a surface in m, cm, in, and ft.
· Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units). / Review
· partition(ed)
· tiling
· gap
· overlap
· side
· length
· attribute
· decompose
· plane figure
· rectangular array
· multiplication
· repeated addition
· nonstandard unit
Instruct
· side length
· unit
· square unit
· surface
· square cm
· square m
· square in
· square ft
· area
Instructional Resources:
Notes and Additional Information:
Anson County ~ Bladen County ~ Columbus County ~ Cumberland County ~ Ft. Bragg ~ Harnett County ~ Hoke County
Lee County ~ Montgomery County ~ Moore County ~ Richmond County ~ Robeson County ~ Scotland County ~ Whiteville City
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