What is the area?

Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about area and using the area formula.

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Year level(s) Year 5, Year 6
Audience Teacher
Purpose Assessment advice, Assessment task
Format Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Questioning, Feedback

Curriculum alignment

Strand and focus Measurement
Topics Length, 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

AC9M6M02
Establish the formula for the area of a rectangle and use it to solve practical problems

Numeracy progression Understanding units of measurement (P7, P8)

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