Streching our measuring muscle

Last week already the students were able to find the perimeter and area of rectangles. This week I have stretched their problem solving muscle with some perimeter and area questions.

On Monday the students had blocks to explore how you can have many shapes with the same area but different perimeters, or many shapes witht he same perimeter but different areas.

Today the students used their best problem solving skills to find the perimeter and area of complex polygons. This activity needed a bit more guidance from me to be fully understood.

In addition to finding area and perimeter we have continued practicing multiplication table. The goal is to increase the speed of automatically recalling 3 and 4 times basic facts.