Area and perimeter: Year 5 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 5 is for the topic of Area and perimeter. Students estimate and measure perimeter in metric units for length and area of quadrilaterals using grid squares and square centimetres. They solve practical problems involving the perimeter and area of regular and irregular shapes.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 5
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Area, volume and surface area
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M5M02 Solve practical problems involving the perimeter and area of regular and irregular shapes using appropriate metric units
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P7)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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