Making different rectangles

Making different rectangles

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This task is about making different rectangles.

Practical task

a) Use 12 cubes to make as many different rectangle shapes as you can. After you have made each shape, either show it to your teacher or draw a picture of it in the space below and label the length and width. Remember to use all 12 cubes for each different rectangle shape you make. The first one has been done for you.
 

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b) Now use 30 cubes to make as many different rectangle shapes  as you can. After you have made each shape, either show it to you teacher or draw a picture of it on the back of this page and label the length and width.

 

Task administration: 
Equipment:
30 multi-link cubes or 'ones' place value blocks per student.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement
Keywords: 
area, rectangles
Description of task: 
Students use a given number of multi-link cubes to make and draw different rectangles.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' understanding of the relationship between length and width, and area.
 
 
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Measurement sense, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 

1 mark
(for both correct)

a)

Makes/draws rectangles with the following dimensions:
3 × 4
2 × 6

2 marks
(for all correct)
or
(1 mark for 3 correct)

b)

Makes/draws rectangles with the following dimensions:
5 × 6
3 × 10
2 × 15
1 × 30