Students will be shown different layouts of hotel rooms and be given a survey about which one was their favorite. The students will interpret the data to try to explain why certain rooms were more favorable than others. Students will then be given graph paper and asked to design their own hotel room. Students will determine the area and perimeter of the objects in their hotel rooms. Lastly, students will be shown the actual area and perimeter of hotel room items to compare to the ones that they created.

The first skill I practice with my students on area is counting the square units inside of a regular shape.  It gives them a better understanding about area.  This activity supports sol 3.8b, counting the number of square units needed to cover a given surface in order to determine its area.  I created this jamboard for my virtual students, so that they are doing the same lesson as my in person students and I can see their work in real time.  Jamboard has been an essential Google tool for me during this school year while teaching both in person and virtual students. 

This is a remix of India’s Bathroom Tiles from Illustrative Mathematics, https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/3/MD/C/7/tasks/1990.The purpose of this activity is for students to explore different ways to find area to support sol 3.8b.  Students are presented with a real-world problem.  How many tiles will India need to buy for her bathroom? Problems of this type give students a better understanding of why they need to learn about area. 

Measuring Surface Area -- Mathematics Instructional Plans (MIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the knowledge, skills and processes found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.