Area Dominoes!

Third graders are learning about finding an area of a shape. Before winter break, we made the connections between finding an area and drawing out rectangular arrays for multiplication. To kick off and review our math skills, students played an area domino game. 

Each group had a basket of dominoes and a sheet of graph paper. One person would pick the domino and tell the group the 2 numbers. Those 2 numbers were the group’s length and width for their rectangle. Each group member silently drew the box on their graph paper filling in the area in the center. Once each group member was done, they did a group check to ensure everyone had the same answer. After that, they could add the domino to a domino train. By the end of the activity, groups had so much fun watching the dominoes go down!