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So I was thinking about the area of a circle (7th grade – and definitely building/stealing from the pizza example).
Direct Comparison – Placing circles over each other.
Indirect Comparison – Placing square tiles on the circles
Direct measurement – “Cutting up” circles to make rectangles
Indirect measurement – using the formula to find the area