Let knowledge grow bountifully like plants in a garden. Given a diagram of a rectangular garden split into plots, scholars determine the area of the entire garden and the areas of the individual plots. As a culminating activity, they design a new garden with a different number of plots and calculate the area of each plot.

Concepts

area, area of rectangles

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Develop a cross-curricular lesson with the science department
• If possible, have students design and create an actual class garden
  

Classroom Considerations

• Learners must be able to calculate areas of rectangles
• Serves as the fifth in a nine-part series
  

Pros

• Includes printable worksheets
• Diagrams are easy to read and interpret
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

3.MD.D.8