Monday – Area

TEKS: 3.6C–Students will be able to determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row.

Directions: Solve the word problems below. Show your work.

  1. Samantha was playing checkers. She noticed that the checker board was square and had 6 squares on each side. How many square units were on the checker board?
  1. Daniel wanted to put new tile in his bathroom. The floor of the bathroom was a rectangle and measured 8 feet by 11 feet. How much tile should Daniel buy?
  1. Olive was painting the wall of her bedroom. If the wall was 8 feet high and 12 feet long, how many square feet would she need to paint?
  1. Ethan’s parents were installing new carpet for his playroom. The playroom floor had an area of 88 square feet. What were the dimensions of Ethan’s playroom? (hint: draw a picture to help you)

Tuesday – Perimeter

TEKS: 3.7B– Student will be able to determine the perimeter of a polygon or a missing length when given perimeter and remaining side lengths in problems.

Directions:Solve the word problems below. Show your work.

  1. Derrick wants to put a fence around his garden. The garden is 15 feet by 9 feet. How much fence material will Derrick need to buy?
  1. Sally was making a picture frame. The picture that was going inside the frame was 8 inches by 10 inches. How much material will Sally need to make her picture frame?
  1. Mrs. Johnson was decorating a bulletin board in her classroom. She bought 24 feet of green border. The bulletin board was 7 feet long and 4 feet wide. Will she have enough border to decorate the board?
  1. The city of Saginaw is getting ready for a community event at their local park. To make room for a big crowd they will need to rope off some space that is 120 meters by 225 meters long. How much rope will they need to buy to create this space?

Wednesday – Geometry / 2D Polygons / Quadrilaterals

TEKS: 3.6B – Student will be able to use attributes to recognize rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.

Directions: Solve the riddles below using the clues about the polygon attributes.

  1. I have four sides. I have four right angles. All of my sides are the same length.

What am I? ______

  1. I have five sides and five angles. In Virginia there is a famous building with my shape.

What am I? ______

  1. I have four sides. I have four angles. All of my sides are the same length but I am not a square.

What am I? ______

  1. I have eight sides and eight angles. Some people refer to me as a stop sign.

What am I? ______

  1. I have four sides. I have two short sides and two long sides.

What two quadrilaterals could I be? ______and ______

  1. I can be drawn many different ways but every time you draw me, I only have three sides.

What am I? ______

  1. I have four sides. I have two sides that are the same length. What am I? ______
  1. I have six sides and six angles. What am I? ______

Thursday – Geometry / 3D Solids

TEKS: 3.6A – The student will be able to classify and sort two- and three-dimensional figures, including cones, cylinders, spheres, triangular and rectangular prisms, and cubes, based on attributes using formal geometric language.

Directions: Solve the riddles below using the clues about the solid attributes.

  1. I have six faces that are all the same size. I have twelve edges that are all the same size. I have eight vertices.

What am I? ______

2. I have one face. I am considered a non-polyhedra. What am I? ______or ______

3. I have eight faces. Two of my faces are a six sided polygon. I have twelve vertices and eighteen edges. What am I? ______

4. I have two faces and am a non-polyhedra.

What am I? ______

5. I have no faces, no vertices and no edges. I am a polyhedra. What am I ? ______

6. I have a rectangular base. I have eight edges and five faces. What am I? ______

7. I have five faces, six vertices and nine edges. What am I? ______

8. I have two faces that are an eight sided polygon. I have ten faces total. I have twenty-four edges and sixteen vertices. What am I? ______

My child has explained his/her homework to me. He/she has told me his/her strategies to solve each problem and has shown his/her thinking.

Parent Signature: ______Date: ______