3rd Grade Math - Area of Rectangles

This post explains and gives practice opportunities related to TEKS 3.6C:

determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row

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Instruction

In third grade, students begin to explore the geometric concept of area and how to find it by overlaying rectangles with square units.

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STAAR Practice

Between 2016 and 2025 (including redesign practice), this readiness standard has been tested 14 times on the STAAR test. Videos explaining each problem can be found below. If you'd rather take a quiz over these questions, click here. The videos below are linked to each question in the quiz as answer explanations after the quiz is submitted.

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