Measuring

We have been working on the math strand
MEASUREMENT and AREA for the past 2 weeks.  Here are some photos of our class applying our knowledge.

Clever Ted solved our problem.....our problem was that we had run out of vivids to find the length around all 4 sides of our mat.(This is called the perimeter)
TED said   "Because we know the long side is 26 pens and the shorter side is 18 pens... all we have to do is add them together and then double our answer"
So this is what we did... We found out that the answer was double 44...
Mrs C  showed us how we could use straight line Luke's to add 44 and 44 together.
WE discovered that it would take 88 vivid pens matched end to end to measure around the edge of our class mat!