Area and perimeter activities 3rd grade

Hands-on ways to teach measuring perimeter and area in 3rd grade can make a world of difference for students. This Math Made Fun Unit is packed full of fun!

Calculating area of a floor plan that students design themselves.

We finished our perimeter and area unit several weeks ago (right before fractions!), but I never got around to posting...

A fun activity using Cheez-Its to find area and perimeter!

7 activities to review area - download free printable math centers to review area with your students, fun math centers to review area

Area and perimeter are two of my favorite math concepts to teach. It's easy to have fun learning area and perimeter.

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Make teaching students about finding the area more fun in the classroom with these five activities! Including area robots, area crowns, area dinosaurs, & more!

Fabulous for math revision, check out these 10 fun math dice games! Includes place value, number facts, fractions & geometry games played with dice.

Students can draw a self portrait on a piece of graph paper and using the proportions that they have drawn, they can then calculate the area and perimeter of their portrait!

Free Zoo Themed Area and Perimeter - a fun way to on area and perimeter with a fun zoo theme than can be used over and over - 3Dinosaurs.com #freeprintable #arealperimeter #mathforkids #noprepprintable

Check out this blog post with 8 great tips to help you better teach area and perimeter concepts. If you teach area and perimeter lessons, you will want to check out how to make these tricky concepts more attainable. Perfect for third grade math, fourth grade math, or fifth grade math teachers. Learn not just the best ways for teaching area and perimeter but ways to make your math lessons fun and engaging as well!

Want to know my favorite lesson to teach area and perimeter? This lesson is super engaging, and sets up my students for success for this unit!

This one day STEM challenge will have your students thinking about perimeter and area. After hearing the book read (or talking about measuring perimeter and area) students will be given a specific perimeter to use in designing a Dog Run.

This area and perimeter for third grade classrooms will help you with your math instruction and practice. A free collection from The Curriculum Corner.

Perimeter Person (with a FREEBIE)

Area and perimeter worksheets are not bad to use and do have a place in math class. But if you want to engage kids with this difficult math skill, try using some of these ideas when you teach the area and perimeter units.

Just a quick little post to share an anchor chart I made to help my students visualize the difference between area and perimeter. Visit {Deb} to see other awesome anchor charts (and add your own). She also has a great freebie this week!

Let's talk area and perimeter. More specifically about area and perimeter of those combined shapes, complex shapes, what ever you want to call them. I remember my first year teacher I was like "This is the same as finding area and perimeter of a square or rectangle but you just combine it". Well, the spelled recipe for disaster. Ha! We got it figured out but time sure does make it easier. So. This is NOT just the same as area and perimeter of "regular shapes". I'm always looking for fun ways…

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