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Perimeter and area
Here you will find a number of activities looking at perimeter and area for a variety of shapes including squares, rectangles and circles.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area
- Audience
- Teachers
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7M01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P6) Understanding units of measurement (P9)
- Publisher
- GeoGebra
- Copyright
- © 2022 GeoGebra. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- reasoning
- Other terms
- GeoGebra
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