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Perimeter and area: measuring and calculating
This guide provides a sequence of small steps for learning about perimeter and area, from using centimetres and grid paper through to calculating the missing value of a shape.
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Year level(s) | Year 5 |
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Audience | Teacher |
Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
Format | Downloadable resources |
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Explicit teaching |
Keywords | compound shapes, irregular shapes, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching |
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Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
Strand and focus | Measurement, Number, Build understanding |
Topics | Addition and subtraction, Area, volume and surface area, Using units of measurement, Length |
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)
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Organisation | White Rose Maths |
Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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