Area (age 8+)
Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft)
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Measure area with equal squares, not with the outside boundary.
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Measure area with equal squares, not with the outside boundary.
Measure area with equal squares, not with the outside boundary.
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Illustrative Mathematics · Practice link — not the full lesson
Finding the Area of Polygons
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Polygon areas are found by counting unit squares. This supports area by unit squares, not every formula shortcut.
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Before you openAsk how many unit squares cover one shaded polygon. Counting once does not prove every area formula.
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Public Illustrative Mathematics task page. The .html address responds HTTP 308 to this URL. An anonymous GET of this URL on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. Where a teacher solution is present, it is on the same page as the student task; this check did not find a separate locked student view. An adult can use the student view section and should not read a solution aloud. Advertising was not observed in the fetched HTML text; that is not a browser, device, or ad-free guarantee. This is a paper or discussion task, not an automatically marked interactive game. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. Diagrams on the page use missing or filename-only alt text, so they are not an accessible image equivalent. Accessibility still depends on an adult describing the picture.
Illustrative Mathematics. “Finding the Area of Polygons.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- Count unit squares to find the area of an L-shaped figure
- Measure the area of a book cover using square-centimetre tiles
- Compare areas of two shapes by counting their unit squares
“If your child draws a shape on squared centimetre paper, can they find its area by counting the squares — including making a sensible estimate for any partial squares?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 6–12
Standards