Rows × Columns: The Quilt Club

Hana, Lily and Zoe meet at the Quilt Club to sew patchwork quilts out of little square patches. Every quilt is a rectangle of squares in neat rows and columns.

Remember: For a rectangle of squares, area = rows × squares in each row. A quilt of 3 rows of 4 squares has an area of 3 × 4 = 12 squares.

Magic trick: No need to count every square! Count one row, count the rows, and use your times tables. Turning the quilt sideways doesn’t change it: 3 × 4 and 4 × 3 are both 12.