What are some shapes that you can find right outside your door? Once you see the shapes hidden in any building’s design, you can start to see how the architect who designed it manipulated these shapes, along with other things like size, texture, proportion, scale, mass and color to not only make a building do what it needs to do but also be really fun to look at.

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  • Lesson 08

    Use visual models, decompose shapes, and apply the area formula for rectangles to solve problems in real world contexts. Use visual models & the area formula for rectangles to solve problems.

  • Lesson 9

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  • Lesson 09

    Understand concepts of volume measurement by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units. Solve problems involving volume. Understand concepts of volume measurement by counting unit cubes or calculating volume.