Painting a Room
5 min
Narrative
This Warm-up familiarizes students with the context of painting the walls of a room, which is used throughout this lesson. Students are given drawings of the four walls of a bedroom. They are prompted to think about what information they would need if they were to paint all the walls and buy the paint.
Launch
Display the drawings of the four walls for all to see. (If possible, provide access to a color version of the drawings to support students in making sense of the features of the room.) Read aloud the statement and the question (or invite students to do so). Give students 1–2 minutes of quiet think time.
Student Task
Here are drawings of the four walls of a bedroom.
If you are asked to paint all the walls and buy enough paint for the job, what information would you need?
Sample Response
Sample responses:
- What are the measurements of each wall?
- What are the measurements of the door and windows?
- How much area can one bucket of paint cover?
- How many coats of paint are needed?
- Will all the walls be the same color?
- What is the budget?
Activity Synthesis (Teacher Notes)
Invite students to share the information they would need and questions they would ask. Consider recording and displaying their responses for all to see. If any students have had experience painting a room, invite them to share any considerations that may be important but have not been mentioned.
Tell students that they will think more about the area to be painted, the necessary amount of paint, and the time needed to paint the walls of a bedroom.
Standards
- 4.MD.A·Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
- 4.MD.A·Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
- 6.G.A·Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
- 6.G.A·Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
20 min
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Painting a Room
5 min
Narrative
This Warm-up familiarizes students with the context of painting the walls of a room, which is used throughout this lesson. Students are given drawings of the four walls of a bedroom. They are prompted to think about what information they would need if they were to paint all the walls and buy the paint.
Launch
Display the drawings of the four walls for all to see. (If possible, provide access to a color version of the drawings to support students in making sense of the features of the room.) Read aloud the statement and the question (or invite students to do so). Give students 1–2 minutes of quiet think time.
Student Task
Here are drawings of the four walls of a bedroom.
If you are asked to paint all the walls and buy enough paint for the job, what information would you need?
Sample Response
Sample responses:
- What are the measurements of each wall?
- What are the measurements of the door and windows?
- How much area can one bucket of paint cover?
- How many coats of paint are needed?
- Will all the walls be the same color?
- What is the budget?
Activity Synthesis (Teacher Notes)
Invite students to share the information they would need and questions they would ask. Consider recording and displaying their responses for all to see. If any students have had experience painting a room, invite them to share any considerations that may be important but have not been mentioned.
Tell students that they will think more about the area to be painted, the necessary amount of paint, and the time needed to paint the walls of a bedroom.
Standards
- 4.MD.A·Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
- 4.MD.A·Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
- 6.G.A·Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
- 6.G.A·Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.