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 And Perimeter Video Calculate and solve problems involving perimeter and area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, kites and composite shapes.
Area and Perimeter Show that you know the area and perimeter formulas of basic shapes.
Area Maze Use your knowledge of rectangle areas to calculate the missing measurement of these composite diagrams.
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?
Area Wall Puzzles Divide the grid into rectangular pieces so that the area of each piece is the same as the number it contains.
Quad Areas Calculate the areas of all the possible quadrilaterals that can be constructed by joining together dots on this grid.
Area shapes Investigate polygons with an area of 4 square units. This is your starting point, you can decide how to proceed.
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