Mrs. Range's Garden- Adapted from Balanced Assessment in Mathematics

The large grey rectangle shows the size of Ms. Range's cucumber garden. In this map each square corresponds to an area of 1 square yard. The side of each square is one yard long.

1. What is the area of Ms. Range's cucumber garden? What is the perimeter of her garden?

2 . Ms. Reilly has planted a cucumber garden with a larger area than Ms. Range's garden. However, Ms. Reilly wants to use less fence to make her garden. Using the same grid, draw a possible map of Ms. Reilly's garden. What is the area of the garden you drew for Ms. Reilly? What is its perimeter?

3. Ms. Duffy has planted a cucumber garden with a smaller area than Ms. Range's garden. However, Ms. Duffy's needs more fence to enclose her garden than Ms. McGinty needs to enclose hers. Again, using the same grid, draw a possible map of Ms. Duffy's garden. What is the area of the garden you drew for Ms. Duffy? What is the perimeter?