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Fun activity to teach area. Using cheez-its as manipulatives you can use these worksheets to gradually teach the concept of Area. The packet starts off with placing cheez-its into the squares provided and then teaches that you can move to multiplying the sides and count the boxes to check your answers, and lastly the prompts are removed to multiply larger numbers to find the area of boxes.

Updated Version with an editable PowerPoint of how to teach Area using Cheez-Its as manipulatives. The lesson starts with high support and slowly removes supports to help students learn the concept of area and how to solve more difficult and abstract problems.

A basic template on how to break down 2-digit numbers into TENS and ONES to make adding easier.