Area with Tiles Square Inches and Centimeters

Lilly wants to find the area of this piece of glass using gray square tiles. Each tile has the area of 1 square unit. Which models show a way that Lily could find the area of the piece of glass?

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Which is a way to find area?

• Counting the square units inside a shape

• Counting the square units around the outside of a shape

What is the area of this shape?

• 36

• 36 square units

• 32

• 32 square units

How are the size of the shape and the amount of square units related?

• The bigger the shape, the more square units will fill it.

• The smaller the shape, the more square units will fill it.

• All shapes have the same area

Find the area.

• 16 square units

• 8 square units

• 4 square units

• 12 square units

Find the area.

• 12 square units

• 8 square units

• 16 square units

• 15 square units

Ms. Thomas students find the area of a rectangle using square unit tiles as shown. Which student is correct? ​

• Student A

• Student B

• Student C

• Student D

Hannah is measuring the area of a blanket. She knows that an inch is longer than a centimeter but it is shorter than a foot. Which sentence is true?

• Hannah will need more square centimeters than square inches to cover the blanket.

• Hannah will need fewer square centimeters than square inches to cover the blanket.

• Hannah will need more square feet than square centimeters to cover the blanket.

• Hannah will need fewer square inches than square feet to cover the blanket.

What is area?

• The amount of square that are on the outside of a shape.

• The amount of square units that are overlapping on a shape

• The amount of square units that cover or fill a shape with no gaps or overlaps

• The number of tiles that are covering a shape with gaps.