Fall Festival Area and Perimeter Challenge | Real-World Math

Make area and perimeter practice fun, creative, and meaningful with this engaging fall-themed math resource! Students take on the role of fall festival planners as they solve real-world problems involving area and perimeter. Using a grid map, they’ll design a fall festival, find the area and perimeter of each attraction, and plan a fall market expansion project—all while applying key math skills in a hands-on, visual way.

This resource includes two hands-on design challenges. In the first challenge, students are given the length and width (or area) of six fall festival attractions. Using the provided grid, they draw and label each attraction and then complete a chart to calculate area and perimeter. Challenge questions push students to analyze and compare attractions in deeper, meaningful ways.

In the second challenge, the fall festival has expanded! Students plan five booths for a fall market—choosing their own lengths and widths for each—and drawing them on a second grid. They then calculate and record the area and perimeter of each booth in a follow-up activity.

This resource includes:

• Fall Festival Challenge where students draw and label each section with
  its length and width
• Fall Festival Area & Perimeter Chart to show area and perimeter
  equations and answers
• Higher-Level Challenge Questions (comparing areas, cost-based problems, identifying similarities/differences, etc.)
• Fall Market Design Challenge where students choose lengths and widths for booths of a fall market
• Fall Market Area & Perimeter Chart to show area and perimeter equations and answers
• Answer Key
• Two Sample Project Pages for modeling expectations

3.MD.C.7

Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

3.MD.C.7.a

Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.

3.MD.C.7.b

Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.

3.MD.D.8

Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.