Roboshipping
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LENGTH
15 Minutes
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Description
Hurry, the delivery cannot be late! Play as a cargo ship worker whose job is to fully load containers with robots before they get shipped overseas. It is critical that the robots are loaded efficiently, so come ready to exercise knowledge of rectangular areas!
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Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about Area of Rectangles Word Problems. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.
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Discussion Questions
Before the Game
What is the area of a rectangle? Why would you ever need to find the area of a rectangle? If you have a rectangular box that you need to fit inside a container, what do you need to know about your box to see if it will fit? What are some units we use for length and width of a rectangle? How will we use the tiles during the game to decide if the robot will fit inside the containers? What information do we need to know to figure out the area of a rectangle?
After the Game
If a rectangle has a length of 4 and a width of 2, what is the area? If you have a T shaped area, how do you figure out the area? What is the process for finding the area of a rectangle? How does knowing the area of an object help us to fit it into a container? How did you figure out the total area of the T-shaped container? What strategies did you use during the game to know in which order to load the robots into the containers? How did your knowledge of area help you get a high score in the game?