Let’s Learn!

She knows the background is a rectangle. It has an area of 50 units\({\Large^2}\), and the length of the top of the rectangle is 10 units long.

Can you help Madelyn make a new background using her graph paper? We know the length of the top of the rectangle is 10 units long, so let’s color 10 unit squares in a row.

We also know that the area of the rectangle is 50 units \({\Large^2}\). Let's keep adding rows of 10 unit squares until we reach 50 unit squares in total! We can use skip-counting to help us count

Click this image as many times as it takes to make the rectangle 50 units\({\Large^2}\).

You did it! This rectangle has 5 rows of 10 unit squares. Its area is 50 units\({\Large^2}\).

Now Madelyn can make a new background for her boa constrictor’s habitat!