In today’s lesson on area, students learned how to calculate the area of a rectangle using the formula “length times breadth” and explored the concept that rectangles with different dimensions can have the same area. The lesson featured an interactive component where students acted as zoo designers, drawing exhibits for animals with specified areas, such as creating a bear exhibit of 20 square yards and a jaguar exhibit of 9 square yards. Students practiced using grid paper, GeoBoards, and the FET simulator to visualize and draw rectangles of different sizes but equal areas, such as rectangles with an area of 12 square centimeters.