Area Explorations
Using the point in the top right corner of the rectangle, stretch and shrink the rectangle and use what you see to answer the questions below.
1. What happens to the area of the rectangle when the base gets bigger?
2. What happens to the area of the rectangle when the base gets smaller?
3. If the height got bigger or smaller and wasn't fixed at 5, would that affect the rectangle's area? How?
4. How does area relate to the base and height of the rectangle?
5. How can area be calculated?
6. When all side lengths are the same, the rectangle is a special type of rectangle called a what?