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Beach Day Area: Towels, Tents, and Sandcastle Plots

Grade 3 area word problems at the beach: multiply side lengths of towels, tents, and sandcastle plots, and find missing side lengths.

Grade 3MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3.MD.C.7.b

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students multiply side lengths to find the area of rectangles in real-world problems.
  • Students use a known area and one side length to find a missing side length.
  • Students compare the areas of rectangles and explain their reasoning.

How to use

Use after students have tiled rectangles with unit squares. Ask them to sketch and label each rectangle and to write square units with every area answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

3.MD.C.7.b

Multiply side lengths to find the area of rectangles in real-world problems.

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Beach Day Area: Towels, Tents, and Sandcastle Plots

Multiply side lengths to find how much sand each rectangle covers.

Towels and tents

Every item on this page is a rectangle. Multiply the length by the width to find the area.

1.
Nia spreads out a beach towel that is 5 feet long and 3 feet wide. What is the area of the towel?

Area =   square feet

2.
The Okafor family's picnic blanket is a square. Each side is 8 feet long.

The blanket covers   square feet of sand.

3.
A beach mat is 6 feet long and 2 feet wide. Leo says the area of the mat is 8 square feet. What mistake did Leo make?
  • A. He multiplied 6 × 2. He should add 6 + 2 + 6 + 2 to get 16 square feet.
  • B. He forgot to use the width. The area is 6 square feet.
  • C. He added 6 + 2. He should multiply 6 × 2 to get 12 square feet.
  • D. He made no mistake. The area is 8 square feet.

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