Finding the Area of a Square from Its Side Worksheet Download
The three wrong answers are the three formulas a student reaches for instead - the perimeter, the side doubled, and the side itself - so the question is really which formula rather than whether you can multiply. Every one of them is a number the given side really produces, and all four choices carry the same square unit, so nothing can be ruled out by size or by label. Sides of 2 and 4 are rejected because at 2 the area equals the doubled side and at 4 it equals the perimeter, and either way two choices collide.
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Finding the Area of a Square
A square's side length is given in a short context and students choose its area.
About this worksheet
A square's side length is given in a short context and students choose its area.
Student objectives
- Find the area of a square from one side
- Tell the area formula from the perimeter formula
- Use square units for an area
- Read a side length out of a word problem
Everyday practice
- Figure out how many square tiles are needed to cover a square floor
- Find how much space a square rug takes up on the ground
- Work out the area of a square garden bed before planting
- Calculate how much wrapping paper covers one square face of a box