Question

1.what do you notice about the areas of the squares write your observations
2.consider the statement:a square with side and moods of 1/3 inch has an area of 1/3 square inches do you agree or disagree with this image lane or show your reasoning.

Answer 1

@AZ

Answer 2

who AZ

Answer 3

Someone very smart

Answer 4

So do you know how to find the area of a square? @AngieCose

Answer 5

Oh

Answer 6

yes i do

Answer 7

it's just side * side, right?

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

so what do you notice about the areas of the square?

(There really is no correct answer to this haha so write whatever you notice)

Answer 10

What really okay!

Answer 11

you can write down what the formula tells us

that the area of square is always the side times side

Answer 12

okay

Answer 13

so for the second part,

remember we said area = side * side

so if one of our side is 1/3
what would the area be?

Answer 14

okay

Answer 15

Im really confused

Answer 16

area of a square equals to side times side

if the length of our side is 3
then the area would be 3 times 3 which is 9

so if our side is a fraction like 1/3

what is the area?

what is 1/3 times 1/3

Answer 17

1/3 x 1/3 is 1/9

Answer 18

good!

Answer 19

so now look at what your question says:

it says if the side length is 1/3
then the area is 1/3

is that true or false?
we just calculated the area ourselves and got 1/9

Answer 20

so its false

Answer 21

right

Answer 22

Exactly! And you have your explanation:

you calculated the area and it's 1/3 * 1/3 which is 1/9
and that's not 1/3