Introduction to Area: Tiling Shapes

A rectangle is covered by 3 rows of square tiles. Each row has 4 tiles. How many square tiles cover the rectangle?

A shape is covered with 9 equal square tiles. What is the area of the shape in square units?

Mia covers a rectangle with square tiles. She leaves spaces between some of the tiles. Has Mia measured the area correctly? Explain.

Count the square units in a shape made of 5 squares in a row and 1 square attached below the middle square. What is the area?

A book cover is 2 square tiles wide and 6 square tiles long. How many square tiles are needed to cover the book cover?

Two students tile the same rectangle. Leo uses small square tiles, and Ava uses larger square tiles. Will they use the same number of tiles? Explain.

A rectangle has 4 columns of square tiles and 2 rows of square tiles. What is its area in square units?

A shape is made from 10 equal square tiles. Sam adds 3 more equal square tiles to the shape. What is the new area?

Which covers a floor correctly: tiles that overlap each other, tiles with gaps between them, or tiles that touch edge to edge with no gaps or overlaps?

A garden path is tiled with 3 rows of squares. The first row has 5 squares, the second row has 5 squares, and the third row has 5 squares. What is the area of the path?

Count the area of an L-shaped tile pattern with 4 squares going down and 3 squares going across the bottom, where the corner square is shared.

A square is covered by 4 rows of tiles. Each row has 4 tiles. What is the area of the square?

A mat has an area of 18 square units. It is covered by 3 equal rows of square tiles. How many tiles are in each row?

Draw or describe a shape with an area of 8 square units. The shape must be made from equal square tiles.

A tiled shape has 2 full rows of 5 square tiles and 1 extra square tile attached to the side. What is the total area?