| Covering and Surrounding: Investigation 5: Measuring Irregular Shapes and Circles |
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MMS Math
Essentials &
Vocabulary![]() Vocabulary on this page Parents Help Links on this page Textbook Index, Glossary, etc. Textbook Investigation and slides Student Edition |
| Geoboard – Use geoboards to illustrate area, perimeter, and rational number concepts. | |
| Geoboard - Circular – Use circular geoboards to illustrate angles and degrees. | |
| Geoboard - Coordinate – Rectangular geoboard with x and y coordinates. | |
| Geoboard - Isometric – Use geoboard to illustrate three-dimensional shapes. |
Circle: find the circumference and the area.
Area and Perimeter
Covering and
SurroundingConcept
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Homework from ACE
In Covering and Surrounding student work with investigations leads them
to:
Understand area and relate area to covering a figure;
Understand perimeter and relate perimeter to surrounding a figure;
Develop strategies for finding areas and perimeters of rectangular shapes and non-rectangular shapes;
Discover relationships between perimeter and area. including that each can vary while the other stays fixed;
Understand how the areas of simple geometric figures relate to each other (e.g. the area of a parallelogram is twice the area of a triangle with the same base and height);
Develop formulas and procedures-stated in words and/or symbols-for finding areas and perimeters of rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, and circles;
Develop techniques for estimating the area and perimeter of an irregular figure; and
Recognize situations in which measuring perimeter or area will help answer practical questions.
| Vocabulary |
| Picture | Vocabuary |
| angle | |
| Circle | |
| radius | |
| diameter | |
| pi | |
| circumference | |
| area | |
| perimeter | |
| base | |
| height | |
| length | |
| width |