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| To find the area of an object, count how many squares fit on it. But there's an easier way! Measure an object's dimensions, and you can use mathematics to calculate its area. |
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Our Cyber-Team is transported to a Wild West site to prove that Hacker has taken a larger piece of land than he is allowed. Hacker is in jail and the trial is about to begin, but is his homestead really larger than what Judge Trudy will allow? The kids must discover how to measure the area of his irregularly shaped property in order to find the answer.
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The Big Sleep
Bianca is planning a sleepover birthday party. To figure out the maximum number of friends she can invite, she decides to count how many sleeping bags she can fit to cover the area on the floor.
Math Message: To figure out how many rectangles will fit in a larger rectangle, multiply the number of rows by the number in each row.
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Boxed In
Watch your students' geometry skills shape up as they fold 2-D shapes into 3-D cubes!
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Tangram Game
In this activity, the player can choose to place Tangram puzzle pieces to create up to 13 shapes. (A Tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle that is composed of 7 geometric shapes: 2 large triangles, 1 medium triangle, 2 small triangles, 1 parallelogram, 1 square.) The player can choose to place the pieces to re-create the shape with or without an outline of the shape.
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