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General contractors: Working with area
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.10
This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students design a floor plan for a house and use calculations of area to arrive at a cost estimate.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
Home renovation: Working with area
In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.9
In this lesson for grade six, students will work together in cooperative groups using the internet to calculate the cost of finishing a basement.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
Woodworkers and finishers: Working with area
In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 3.6
In this lesson, students participate in a furniture-finishing scenario in which they draw and calculate the area of a set of tabletops with different shapes.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
By Valerie Davis, Sonya Rexrode, and Monika Vasili.