Perimeter resources

Students calculate the length of a builder's string line.

Students identify the error in three statements made about the perimeter and area of given objects.

Students calculate the lengths and areas of a road sign.

Students calculate the area of an extension to a cottage and the area around the buildings.

Students calculate the volume of 3-dimensional shapes made up from cubes.

Students calculate the perimeter and area of three composite shapes.

Students answer questions about perimeter and length of square and rectangle shapes.

Students calculate the shapes with the largest and smallest perimeter and identify a relationship between the features of a shape and the perimeter.

In this practical task, students cut out shapes and combine them to make a shape with the largest perimeter, and calculate the perimeter and area.

Students calculate the distance around three different sized gardens.

Students calculate the length of fencing around a deck.

Students calculate the perimeter and area of a composite shape.

Students are asked to work out the perimeter of different polygon shapes.

Students draw shapes to show how the perimeter increases and decreases for different shapes of the same area size.

Students find the perimeters for range of different 4-sided polygons.

Students calculate the perimeter of a range of 2-dimensional shapes.

Students calculate the area of composite shapes.

Students find the width and perimeter of three rectangles with the same area and different lengths.

In this practical task, students make different shapes with four multi-link cubes, draw them, identify the smallest perimeter, and explain what happens to the area.

Students identify which of four shapes created from equilateral triangles has the largest area and which has the largest perimeter.