Here are some specific activities, investigations or visual aids we have picked out. Click anywhere in the grey area to access the resource.
Area and Perimeter of a Rectangle Questions on the areas and perimeters of rectangles which will test your problem solving abilities.
Area Builder An interactive workspace in which to make shapes using square tiles with given areas and perimeters.
Area of a Triangle Calculate the areas of the given triangles in this self marking quiz.
Area And Perimeter Video Calculate and solve problems involving perimeter and area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, kites and composite shapes.
Area of a Trapezium Check that you can find the area of a trapezium and use the trapezium area formula for problem solving.
Area and Perimeter Show that you know the area and perimeter formulas of basic shapes.
Area Two How many different shapes with an area of 2 square units can you make by joining dots on this grid with straight lines?
Quad Areas Calculate the areas of all the possible quadrilaterals that can be constructed by joining together dots on this grid.
Polygon Areas Investigate which polygons have an area of 4 square units on this interactive dotty grid.
Volume Video There are simple formulas that can be used to find the volumes of basic three-dimensional shapes.
Volume Use formulae to solve problems involving the volumes of cuboids, cones, pyramids, prisms and composite solids.
Areas of Composite Shapes Find the areas of combined (composite) shapes made up of one or more simple polygons and circles.
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