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Delta Modern Language Schools

Primary stage
Math department
st
Grade 3 (1 term 2024/2025)

Area

 The area: the number of square units that cover the shape.

 Strategies of finding area:
1) Counting number of square units.

1 2 3
A2q 4 5 6

2) Array:
Rows X columns

3) Using models (dimensions)

Distributive property of multiplication

 You can split an array into two smaller arrays.
 For example:

(3 x 7) = (3 x 2) + (3 x 5)

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