Area Investigation

 Students have been exploring area and experimenting with fractional side lengths. 

Warm Up:

What dimensions could you have for the area of 24 units?

Students used sticky notes to represent possible dimensions. Here are some student examples that students shared:

Follow up questions:

Do you have all of the possible dimensions? 

How do you know?

Next: Students were provided with the following question from Illustrative Mathematics!

Using the hallway tiles, which are 1 square foot each, students worked to mark out the dimensions for Chavone's bathroom floor. This helped students make sense of the fractional sides. This problem proved challenging as the fractional parts had different denominators. Students worked together and were able to solve the problem! Can our class fit in Chavone's bathroom? Yes!

Students finished the session by playing Name that Number!