GRADE: 3-7 / TIME: 2 Weeks
Design Your Dream Bedroom: Real World Math Meets Creativity! (6 pages)
Looking for a meaningful, engaging way to teach area and perimeter? This hands-on lesson transforms your classroom into a team of young interior designers! Students apply their math skills to design their dream bedroom - using specific measurements, calculating area and perimeter, and making real-world decisions about space, layout, and function.
This resource blends math with creativity, giving students the opportunity to think critically, plan strategically, and demonstrate their understanding in a fun and memorable way. They’ll be challenged to go beyond rectangles and squares, using irregular shapes and combining different areas to build a layout that works.
What’s Included:
• Clear, step-by-step student instructions
• Planning sheets and design templates
• Printable 1 cm graph paper for draft and good copy
• Built-in assessment criteria
This project helps your students see the purpose behind perimeter and area, while giving them the freedom to explore, design, and create ~ all while doing math that matters.
TIP: Have students switch their draft with one another to double check their calculations and to ensure criteria has been met before they begin their good copy.
Extension: For students looking for a challenge, have them create furniture with irregular shapes but no diagonal lines. To extend them further, get them learning how to calculate diagonal lines and allow them to use them within their design!
Flip It & Find It: Area with Boxes (2 pages + grid)
Bring math to life with this creative, real-world activity that gets students thinking, measuring, and discovering! In Flip It & Find It, students transform an ordinary cardboard box from home into a colorful geometric investigation. By flipping the box inside out, drawing a 1 cm² grid, and identifying matching areas, students will explore the concept that rectangles and squares have opposite sides with equal area.
This lesson reinforces area, measurement, and spatial reasoning while promoting creativity, collaboration, and real-world connections. Perfect for centers, whole class, or small group work!
What’s Included:
Step-by-step student checklist
Visual instructions for setup and grid work
Reflection questions to deepen understanding
Assessment rubric using a proficiency scale
TIP: To adapt for students, use the grid provided and allows students to glue a grid on instead. By using a smaller box, students have less calculating and colouring to do!
Extension: For your early finishers, have them calculate and record the perimeter of each shape. Ask them to compare them and to think about why certain perimeters are the same size as others. Give them a larger box to work with, as this will require more calculating.
GRADE: 3-7 / TIME: 2 Weeks
Design Your Dream Bedroom: Real World Math Meets Creativity! (6 pages)
Looking for a meaningful, engaging way to teach area and perimeter? This hands-on lesson transforms your classroom into a team of young interior designers! Students apply their math skills to design their dream bedroom - using specific measurements, calculating area and perimeter, and making real-world decisions about space, layout, and function.
This resource blends math with creativity, giving students the opportunity to think critically, plan strategically, and demonstrate their understanding in a fun and memorable way. They’ll be challenged to go beyond rectangles and squares, using irregular shapes and combining different areas to build a layout that works.
What’s Included:
• Clear, step-by-step student instructions
• Planning sheets and design templates
• Printable 1 cm graph paper for draft and good copy
• Built-in assessment criteria
This project helps your students see the purpose behind perimeter and area, while giving them the freedom to explore, design, and create ~ all while doing math that matters.
TIP: Have students switch their draft with one another to double check their calculations and to ensure criteria has been met before they begin their good copy.
Extension: For students looking for a challenge, have them create furniture with irregular shapes but no diagonal lines. To extend them further, get them learning how to calculate diagonal lines and allow them to use them within their design!
Flip It & Find It: Area with Boxes (2 pages + grid)
Bring math to life with this creative, real-world activity that gets students thinking, measuring, and discovering! In Flip It & Find It, students transform an ordinary cardboard box from home into a colorful geometric investigation. By flipping the box inside out, drawing a 1 cm² grid, and identifying matching areas, students will explore the concept that rectangles and squares have opposite sides with equal area.
This lesson reinforces area, measurement, and spatial reasoning while promoting creativity, collaboration, and real-world connections. Perfect for centers, whole class, or small group work!
What’s Included:
Step-by-step student checklist
Visual instructions for setup and grid work
Reflection questions to deepen understanding
Assessment rubric using a proficiency scale
TIP: To adapt for students, use the grid provided and allows students to glue a grid on instead. By using a smaller box, students have less calculating and colouring to do!
Extension: For your early finishers, have them calculate and record the perimeter of each shape. Ask them to compare them and to think about why certain perimeters are the same size as others. Give them a larger box to work with, as this will require more calculating.
