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Knowledge
Students know:
- Appropriate units for measuring area: square inches, square units, square feet, etc..
- Strategies for composing and decomposing shapes to find area.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Communicate the relationship between models of area and the associated real-world mathematical problems.
- Use logical reasoning to choose and apply strategies for finding area by composing and decomposing shapes.
- Accurately compute area of rectangles using multiplication and the formula.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The area of a figure is measured by the number of same-size unit squares that exactly cover the interior space of the figure.
- Shapes can be composed and decomposed into shapes with related properties,
- Area is additive.
Vocabulary
- Right triangles
- Special quadrilaterals
- Polygons
- Area
- Decompose
- Compose
