Area and Perimeter Resource Bank

This resource bank consists of 19 activities exploring and investigating different area and perimeter. The activities include:

• Investigations using a tangram
• Measuring the areas of composite shapes made from rectangles and triangles
• Investigating the link between the dimensions of a rectangle and the size of its area
• Investigating the area of a triangles made on a isometric paper
• Calculating the perimeter of snowflakes made from overlapping triangles
• Using squares to find circles
• Finding the area of squares in squares and triangles in triangles
• Finding the area of kites
• Finding the area of rectangles on a geoboard
• Using a rule to find the area of a triangle
• Finding areas of irregular shapes
• Finding maximum and minimum areas for shapes with a fixed perimeter size
• Using area to generate number patterns

These resources were produced at the Resources for Learning Development Unit in Bristol by a collaborative group of teachers: Laurinda Brown, Dave Hewitt, Jo Waddingham and Pat Evans.