Area resources

Students use a diagram of a netball court and soccer field to calculate area.

Students use the scaled plan of a property to calculate the area of the pool, house, and lawn.

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.

Students calculate the area of four different shapes on a grid.

Students use a given number of multi-link cubes to make and draw different rectangles.

Students select a non-standard unit of measure to measure an envelope and explain their choice.

In this practical task students use a grid squares overlay to estimate the area of six shapes by counting the number of squares each shape covers.

Students work out how many small boxes fit into a larger carton.

Students write the simplest algebraic expressions for the lengths and area of parts of a composite shape, then solve these expressions using substitution. They then solve an equation that relates an algebraic expression to a given side length.

Students calculate the number of 2cm blocks fit into a given 3-dimensional block model, and answer questions about one face, and volume of the block model.

Students calculate length and area of colours on the Danish flag.

Students calculate the number of 3-dimensional shapes that fit into larger 3-dimensional shapes.

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.

Student work out the side lengths and area of a tapa cloth from the measurement of a small section of it, converting between cm and metres.

Students complete statements which explore the relationship between scale factor enlargements and length, area, and volume of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes.

Students calculate the area of a composite shape.

Students calculate the perimeter and area of three composite shapes.

Students calculate increases in length, area, and volume, and relate this to the scale factor for an enlargement.

For this NEMP task students order six shapes from smallest to largest by area.

In this practical task, students decide which of four shapes have the same area, then use 100s blocks to check their answer.

Students answer four multiple-choice questions about volume and surface area.

Students calculate the surface area of the sides and top of a cylinder, showing their working.