Area and perimeter: Year 7 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 7 is for the topic of Area and perimeter. Students should be familiar with the concept of area and how to find the area of a rectangle. They will extend this knowledge to find the formulas for the areas of other shapes, such as a parallelogram and triangles.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
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	AC9M7M01 Solve problems involving the area of triangles and parallelograms using established formulas and appropriate units
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P9) Understanding geometric properties (P6)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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