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How to Teach Students to Measure Area

by Brain Ninjas

Teaching your students to calculate area can be a challenge, but we've pulled together great ideas to help introduce, practice, review and assess how students measure area.

The biggest mistake students often make when they measure area is that they aren’t quite sure what they are supposed to be measuring. Generally, the area is the amount of space inside a two-dimensional shape. We try to teach students math using plenty of hands-on activities. Come read about the ways we measure area in our upper elementary math class.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: area, Math, Math Lessons, math units, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, measurement, Professional Learning, task cards, Teachers Pay Teachers, Worksheets

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