This post explains and gives practice opportunities related to TEKS 3.6C:
determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row
Instruction
In third grade, students begin to explore the geometric concept of area and how to find it by overlaying rectangles with square units.
STAAR Practice
Between 2016 and 2024 (including redesign practice), this readiness standard has been tested 13 times on the STAAR test. Videos explaining each problem can be found below. If you'd rather take a quiz over these questions, click here. The videos below are linked to each question in the quiz as answer explanations after the quiz is submitted.
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