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Can they be equal?
Students consider the relationship between area and perimeter and engage in mathematical thinking.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Students
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2021 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
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