Three Rectangles
Materials: grid paper or recording sheet
- Leah and Sam found five different ways to decompose the figure below into
exactly three rectangles. The three rectangles covered the entire figure but
did not overlap. - Work with a partner. Show five different ways that Leah and Sam might have
decomposed the figure into three rectangles. For each solution you must:- draw the figure and shade the three rectangles different colors
- write a multiplication equation to find the area of each rectangle
- write an addition equation to find the total area of the figure
- Share your work with another partnership. Did you decompose the figure in the
same ways?