Home Learning - Set on Friday 24th February, due in on Wednesday 7th March

We've been learning about area and perimeter.

This site has some really good practice activities for you to try:
http://www.matematicasdivertidas.com/Zonaflash/juegosflash/perimetros.swf

Your home learning is to carefully draw as many shapes as you can which have an area of 16 squared centimetres.  Label their width and their length.

Please:
use squared paper and a sharp pencil, use this link if you need more squared paper
make sure your lines are straight by using a ruler.

Extension 1: Red, orange, yellow and green maths groups should try to do this
Which shape has the biggest perimeter?
Which shape has the smallest perimeter?

Extension 2: Red and orange maths groups should try to do this
Investigate with shapes with an area of 20 squared centimetres.

Which shape has the biggest perimeter?
Which shape has the smallest perimeter?

Area and Perimeter

What is area?

What is perimeter?

What units do we use to measure area?

What units do we use to measure perimeter?

How do we measure the area of a rectangle?

How do we measure the area of a triangle?

Please leave your answer as a comment.