What do you notice? What do you wonder?

Priya has enough materials to build a rectangular garden that covers 36 square feet.

Choose all the side lengths that are reasonable for her garden. Explain your reasoning.

1. 9 feet by feet
2. 9 feet by feet
3. 12 feet by feet
4. 9 feet by feet

1. Write a multiplication expression with whole numbers whose value is slightly less than, slightly greater than, or about equal to the value of .
   1. slightly less:
   2. slightly greater:
   3. about equal to:
2. Write a multiplication expression with whole numbers whose value is slightly less than, slightly greater than, or about equal to the value of .
   1. slightly less:
   2. slightly greater:
   3. about equal to:

3. Without calculating, use the numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, to complete the expression so it has a value close to 20.

4. Explain how you know your expression represents a value close to 20.