{"id":887,"date":"2026-01-19T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:50:40","slug":"area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/area\/","title":{"rendered":"Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Calculate Surface Space on a Grid<\/h2>\n<p>A specialized tool for measuring the area of rectangles and composite shapes by counting unit squares.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use:<\/strong> Draw shapes on the grid. The tool helps students visualize that area is the number of square units that cover a surface.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Classroom Idea:<\/strong> Compare two different shapes (e.g., a 4&#215;3 rectangle and a 6&#215;2 rectangle) to show they have the same area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover an area with square units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geometry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/area.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manipulatives.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}