Measuring Area

On Thursday the 23rd of May we did measuring the area for math. Earlier our teacher had drawn a square with chalk outside our class. We went outside and predicted how many students of different sizes could sit comfortably in the square, I predicted 5 students could sit in the square. Afterwards we got some students and put them in the square and the answer turned out to be 4. Then our teacher told us that the square was actually a square meter. Then we went back inside and made predictions of how many square meters the class would be. We got into groups to work out how we could measure it and the most recomended method was measuring it verticaly and then horizontally so we did that. The answer was about 86 square meters.