Eighteen guests are coming for Thanksgiving, but there are only four folding tables! Grade 6 students arrange them in a line, a block and an L, then find the perimeter, seats and tablecloth area of each. They discover that area stays the same while perimeter changes. Interactive, auto-graded, 22 questions. Aligned to 6.G.A.1. About 25 minutes.
Table for Eighteen: A Thanksgiving Area and Perimeter Worksheet for 6th Grade
Eighteen people are coming to Thanksgiving dinner, and your family has just four folding tables. Can you arrange them so everyone gets a seat? In this interactive, real-world math worksheet, students solve a problem every family faces on Thanksgiving: setting up the table. The tool they use is area and perimeter of composite shapes.
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Skills covered: perimeter of rectangles and composite figures, area of rectangles, decomposing composite shapes, missing side lengths, working with fractions and mixed numbers (2½ ft), rounding down in context, comparing area and perimeter, and real-world problem solving.
Bring a little Thanksgiving fun into your math class and let your students figure out the seating chart. Assign it today!
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Students arrange the same four tables into different layouts and find the perimeter, seating and tablecloth area of each, splitting the L-shape into rectangles to find its area. They discover that the area stays the same while the perimeter, and so the number of seats, changes when edges are pushed together. This builds fluency with area and perimeter of composite figures in a real context (6.G.A.1).
Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
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