Area and perimeter: Year 4 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 4 is for the topic of Area and perimeter. Students estimate and measure perimeter and area using informal and formal units.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 4
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M4M02
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P6)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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