Grade 3 Unit 2
Lesson 7: Different Square Units (Part 2)
CC BY 2021 Illustrative Mathematics®
Grade 3 Unit 2
Lesson 7: Different Square Units (Part 2)
CC BY 2021 Illustrative Mathematics®
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
This is a square meter.
What kinds of areas would make sense to measure with square meters?
Explain your reasoning.
This is a square foot.
What kinds of areas would make sense to measure with square feet?
Explain your reasoning.
For each area tell if you would use square centimeters, square inches, square feet, or square meters to measure it and why you chose that unit.
Choose the area that best matches each item. Be ready to explain your reasoning.
A playing card.
Explain why you chose that unit.
The floor of a classroom.
A sticky note.
Find some object or space that you would measure with square inches, square centimeters, square feet, and square yards.
Select all the areas that you would measure with square feet.
The area of a baseball field.
Explain why you chose that unit.
The area of a cover of a book you’re reading.
Explain why you chose that unit.
The area of our classroom.
Explain why you chose that unit.
The area of a piece of paper.
Explain why you chose that unit.
The area of the top of a table.
Explain why you chose that unit.
The area of the screen on a phone.
Explain why you chose that unit.
Explain why you chose that unit.
Explain why you chose that unit.
The top of a student desk.
Explain why you chose that unit.