Parking at the Mall
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A lesson plan for grades 4–5 Mathematics
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In this lesson, one of a two-part unit from Illuminations titled “Mathematics at the Mall,” students develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. Activities focus on space for parking and space for leasing shops in the mall.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 4
- Goal 2: Measurement - The learner will understand and use perimeter and area.
- Objective 2.01: Develop strategies to determine the area of rectangles and the perimeter of plane figures.
- Objective 2.02: Solve problems involving perimeter of plane figures and areas of rectangles.
Grade 5
- Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will understand and use properties and relationships of plane figures.
- Objective 3.02: Make and test conjectures about polygons involving:
- Sum of the measures of interior angles.
- Lengths of sides and diagonals.
- Parallelism and perpendicularity of sides and diagonals.
- Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons.
- Sum of the measures of interior angles.
- Lengths of sides and diagonals.
- Parallelism and perpendicularity of sides and diagonals.
- Objective 3.02: Make and test conjectures about polygons involving:
