Area

In math, we are learning about finding area. On Wednesday, we made models of square feet, and then put them together to build a square yard.




After building our square yard, we focused on finding the area of...our skin! We used a rule of thumb about area: that the area of your skin is about 100 times the area of your hand print. So we traced our hands onto one inch grid paper and found the area. After that, we multiplied by 100 to calculate the area of our skin in square inches. Once we knew that measurement, we figured out how many square feet our skin was, and then we found out how the area of our skin compared to a square yard. Most of the class had about one square yard of skin. Amazing!