1. Investigate and use the formulas for area and perimeter of rectangles
Lesson 3.1:

2. Perimeter and Area Fluency
What’s the length of the longest side?
What’s the length of
the opposite side?
What’s the sum of the
rectangle’s two longest
lengths?
10 units
5 units
5 units

3. Perimeter and Area Fluency
What’s the length of the shortest side?
What’s the length of
the missing side?
What’s the sum of the
rectangle’s two shortest
lengths?
What’s the perimeter?
14 units
2 units
5 units
5 units
2 units

4. Perimeter and Area Fluency
How many square units are in one row?
How many rows of 5 squares
are there?
Let’s find how many square
units there are in the
rectangle, counting by fives.
What’s the area?

5. Perimeter and Area Fluency
What’s the length of the longest side?
What’s the length of
the opposite side?
What’s the sum of the
rectangle’s two longest lengths?
What’s the length of the shortest side?
What’s the length of the opposite side?
What’s the sum of the rectangle’s two shortest lengths?
What’s the perimeter?

6. Perimeter and Area Fluency
How many square units are in one row?
How many rows of 4 squares
are there?
How many square units there
are in the rectangle,
counting by fours?
What’s the area?

7. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 1
Draw a rectangle on your grid paper that is four units wide and seven units long.
Tell your partner what you notice about your rectangle.
The opposite sides are the
same length.
The opposite sides are parallel.
It has four right angles.

8. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 1
Place the point of your pencil on one of the vertices of the rectangle.
Trace around the outside of the rectangle until you get back to where you started.
What do we call the measurement
of the distance around a rectangle?
Perimeter
Trace the perimeter again. This time,
count the units as you trace them.
What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
22 units

9. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 1
When we know the measurements of the length and width of a rectangle is there a quicker way to determine the perimeter than to count the units while tracing?
We could add the measurements of all four sides of the rectangle.

10. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 1
Take your pencil and count all of the squares within your rectangle.
These squares represent the area of the rectangle.
How do I find the area of the rectangle?
You count the squares.
You can multiply the length times
the width of the rectangle.
Four units times seven units is
28 square units.

11. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
Draw a rectangle on your graph paper that
is 3 units wide and 9 units long.
We can label the length and width
of the rectangle.
Now label the length and width of your
rectangle.
How can we find the perimeter?
Add up the length of all of the sides.
= 24
The perimeter is 24 units.
We could add = 24 units.
The order doesn’t matter when you are adding.
width
length

12. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
Use your pencil to trace along one width
and one length.
Along how many units did you trace?
12 units.
How does 12 relate to the length and
width of the rectangle?
It’s the sum of the length and width.
How does the sum of the length and width
relate to finding the perimeter of the rectangle?
width
length

13. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
It’s halfway around.
We can double length and double the
width to find the perimeter instead of
adding all the sides (2l + 2w).
We could also add the length and the
width and double that sum, 2 × (l + w).
Both of those work since the opposite
sides are equal.
width
length

14. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
When we use (2l + 2w) or 2 × (l + w) we have
a special name called a formulas.
We counted along the sides of the
rectangle or adding sides or doubling,
to find the perimeter.
Let’s create an Anchor Chart to keep
track of the formulas for finding the
perimeter of a rectangle.
Talk to your partner about the most efficient way to find the perimeter.
width
length

15. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
Formulas for Perimeter
P = l + w + l + w
P = 2 L + 2 w
P = 2 x (l + w )
Which is the most efficient way to find the perimeter? Why?
width
length

16. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
Draw a rectangle that is 2 units wide and 4 units long. Find the perimeter by using the most efficient formula.
Talk to your partner about the
perimeter and how you found it.
Talk to your partner about why this
is the most efficient formula.

17. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
Now draw a rectangle that is 5 units wide and 6 units long.
Label the length as an unknown of x units. How can we determine the length? Discuss your ideas with a partner.

18. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
We know that the width is 5, we can label the opposite side as 5 units since they are the same.
If the perimeter is 26, we can take away the widths to find the sum of the other two sides. 26 – 10 = 16.
If the sum of the remaining two sides is 16, we know that each side must be 8 since I know that they are equal and = 16, so x = 8.
5 units

19. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
We could also find the length another way.
We know that if we add the length and the width of the rectangle together we will get half of the perimeter.
In this rectangle, the perimeter is 26 units, the length plus the width equals 13 units.
If the width is 5, that means that the length has to be 8 units because = 13.
26 ÷ 2 = 13, x + 5 = 13 or
13 – 5 = x, so x = 8.
5 units

20. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 2
Draw a rectangle with a length of 8 units and a perimeter of 28 units.
Label the length as 8 units.
Label the width as an unknown of x units.
How can we determine the width?
8 units

21. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
Look back at the rectangle with the width
of 3 units and the length of 9 units.
How can we find the area of the rectangle?
We can count all of the squares.

22. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
We could also count the number of squares in one row and then skip count that number for all of the rows.

23. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
We can multiply the number of rows by the number in each row.
A quicker way is to multiply the length times the width. Nine rows of 3 units each is like an array. We can just multiply 9 × 3.

24. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
Talk to your partner about the most efficient way to find the area of a rectangle.

25. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
Earlier we drew these rectangles. Let’s find the area using the must efficient strategy.
How does the area of each rectangle need to be labeled and why?

26. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
We discussed a formula for finding the perimeter of a rectangle.
We just discovered a formula for finding the area of a rectangle. If we use A for area, l for length, and w for width, how could we write the formula?
A = l × w
We will add the formula for area to our Anchor Chart.

27. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
A = l × w
If we know that the area of a rectangle is 50 square centimeters and the length of the rectangle is 10 centimeters, how can we determine the measurement of the width of the rectangle?

28. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
50 square centimeters is equal to 10 centimeters times the width. 10 times 5 equals 50, so the width is 5 centimeters.
The area formula says 50 = 10 × __.
We can solve with division!
50 square centimeters divided by 10 centimeters is 5 centimeters.

29. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 3
A = l × w
What is the area of the rectangle?
What is the missing side?

30. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 4
If a rectangle has an area of 24 square units, what whole numbers could be the length and width of the rectangle? Discuss with your partner.
The length is 3 units and the width is 8 units.
The length could also be 4 units and the width 6 units.

31. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 4
Or the other way around: length of 6 units and width of 4 units.
There are many combinations of length and width to make a rectangle with an area of 24 square units.

32. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 4
We can show the combinations in a table.
Work with your partner to see if we have all
possible combinations.

33. Guided Instruction Concept Development Problem 4
Draw rectangles and solve for the perimeter using the formula.

34. Exit Ticket Determine the area and perimeter of the rectangle.
Determine the perimeter of the rectangle.

35. Math Log
 A rectangle with whole number side lengths has an area of 24 square centimeters and a perimeter of 22 centimeters. Find the length and width of the rectangle.