Unit 2 - Lesson 7 - Grade 3: Illustrative Mathematics

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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®
Lesson: Different Square Units (Part 2)

Notice and Wonder: A Bigger Square (Warm Up)

1.

What do you notice?

2.

What do you wonder?

Square Feet and Square Meters

3.

This is a square meter.


What kinds of areas would make sense to measure with square meters?

4.

Explain your reasoning.

5.

This is a square foot.


What kinds of areas would make sense to measure with square feet?

6.

Explain your reasoning.

Which Square Unit?

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.
7.
The area of a baseball field.
__________
8.

Explain why you chose that unit.

9.
The area of a cover of a book you’re reading.
__________
10.

Explain why you chose that unit.

11.
The area of our classroom.
__________
12.

Explain why you chose that unit.

13.
The area of a piece of paper.__________
14.

Explain why you chose that unit.

15.
The area of the top of a table.__________
16.

Explain why you chose that unit.

17.
The area of the screen on a phone.__________
18.

Explain why you chose that unit.

Choose the area that best matches each item. Be ready to explain your reasoning.
19.
A playing card.
__________
20.

Explain why you chose that unit.

21.
The floor of a classroom.
__________
22.

Explain why you chose that unit.

23.
A sticky note.
__________
24.

Explain why you chose that unit.

25.
The top of a student desk.
__________
26.

Explain why you chose that unit.

Area Scavenger Hunt (Optional)

27.

Find some object or space that you would measure with square inches, square centimeters, square feet, and square yards.

Cool Down: Square Feet?
28.

Select all the areas that you would measure with square feet.