6 lessons for year 6 pupils on area and perimeter (including one on volume).
area and perimeter of quadrilaterals
area and perimeter of compound shapes
area of triangles x 2
area of 2D shapes including parallelograms
volume of cuboids
This resource is on SMART notebook and have my notes on from previous years - this can easily be rubbed out but felt it worth leaving in, in case it helps understand the lesson.
Finding the area and perimeter of compound shapes by splitting into rectangles. This pack includes 8 worksheets with a total of 46 multi-step questions on the area and perimeter of rectangles and compound shapes made from multiple rectangles. All units are in centimetres.
✎ Contents:
This resource includes:
• Worksheet 1 – There are 7 rectangles to find the area and perimeter of. Lengths are less than 100cm.
• Worksheet 2 – There are 6 compound “L” shapes to find the area and perimeter of by splitting into 2 rectangles. Lengths are less than 100cm.
• Worksheet 3 – There are 6 compound “L” shapes to find the area and perimeter of by splitting into 2 rectangles. Lengths are longer.
• Worksheet 4 – There are 6 compound “L” shapes to find the area and perimeter of by splitting into 3 rectangles. Lengths are longer.
• Worksheet 5 – There are 6 compound “L” shapes with missing sides to find the area and perimeter of by splitting into 2 rectangles. Lengths are less than 100cm.
• Worksheet 6 – There are 6 compound “L” shapes with missing sides to find the area and perimeter of by splitting into 2 rectangles. Lengths are longer.
• Worksheet 7 – There are 6 compound “L” shapes with missing sides to find the area and perimeter of by splitting into 3 rectangles. Lengths are longer.
• Worksheet 8 – This is a challenging worksheet with missing sides. There are 3 compound shapes to find the area and perimeter of by splitting into rectangles.
• Answer sheets with all answers and working.
• Teachers Notes
✦ Objectives:
This resource has been designed to practice:
• finding the area and perimeter of rectangles.
• finding the area and perimeter of compound shapes by splitting into rectangles.
• finding the area and perimeter using metric measurements.
• Addition and multiplication methods.
✽ Directions:
Print out the 8 worksheets for each student.
They can be printed in colour or black and white.
✦ Notes:
All units in this resource are centimetres.
These questions are suitable for use without a calculator.
All answers are included.
To view this resource in inches, please click here
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Included in the resource is:
A lesson PowerPoint with starter, vocabulary, modelling (with teacher notes) and guided practice
Lesson plan
Worksheet with answer sheet
Scaffolded worksheet with answer sheet
Modified worksheet for those who need additional changes to access the learning with answers
Challenge tasks
Support strips that can be stuck in books
Everything is included that could be needed to run the lesson successfully, with each resource carefully considered in ensuring accessibility for all as well as ensuring there are plenty of opportunities for challenge to provide depth of understanding.
A bundle of fully resourced area, perimeter and volume lessons based on the Year 6 White Rose maths unit for area, perimeter and volume with 8 fully planned and resourced lessons included.
Included are lessons for:
Lesson 1 - Shapes - Same area
Lesson 2 - Area and perimeter
Lesson 3 - Area of a triangle - Counting squares
Lesson 4 - Area of a right-angled triangle
Lesson 5 - Area of any triangle
Lesson 6 - Area of a parallelogram
Lesson 7 - Volume - Counting cubes
Lesson 8 - Volume of a cuboid
All lessons include:
A lesson PowerPoint with starter, vocabulary, modelling (with teacher notes) and guided practice
Lesson plan
Worksheet with answer sheet
Scaffolded worksheet with answer sheet
Modified worksheet for those who need additional changes to access the learning with answers
Challenge tasks
Support strips that can be stuck in books
Everything is included that could be needed to run the lesson successfully, with each resource carefully considered in ensuring accessibility for all as well as ensuring there are plenty of opportunities for challenge to provide depth of understanding.
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A bundle of fully resourced perimeter and area lessons based on the Year 5 White Rose maths unit for perimeter and area with 6 fully planned and resourced lessons included
Included are lessons for:
Lesson 1 - Perimeter of rectangles
Lesson 2 - Perimeter of rectilinear shapes
Lesson 3 - Perimeter of polygons
Lesson 4 - Area of rectangles
Lesson 5 - Area of compound shapes
Lesson 6 - Estimate Area
All lessons include:
A lesson PowerPoint with starter, vocabulary, modelling (with teacher notes) and guided practice
Lesson plan
Worksheet with answer sheet
Scaffolded worksheet with answer sheet
Modified worksheet for those who need additional changes to access the learning with answers
Challenge tasks
Support strips that can be stuck in books
Everything is included that could be needed to run the lesson successfully, with each resource carefully considered in ensuring accessibility for all as well as ensuring there are plenty of opportunities for challenge to provide depth of understanding.
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Included in the resource is:
A lesson PowerPoint with starter, vocabulary, modelling (with teacher notes) and guided practice
Lesson plan
Worksheet with answer sheet
Scaffolded worksheet with answer sheet
Modified worksheet for those who need additional changes to access the learning with answers
Challenge tasks
Support strips that can be stuck in books
Everything is included that could be needed to run the lesson successfully, with each resource carefully considered in ensuring accessibility for all as well as ensuring there are plenty of opportunities for challenge to provide depth of understanding.
Two different sets of questions using the same keycode.
Worksheets prepared with and without keycode to allow for use in classroom or for homework.
Includes;
a) PPT with keycode and all answers
b) Worksheets with
Tasks and keycode
Just tasks to use with PPT keycode
These SATs style word problems will help your pupils with mastery of area and perimeter through problem solving and reasoning - suitable for Year 6 and above.
Answers supplied.
Carefully crafted teaching presentations with everything you need to teach each small step of White Rose Maths Year 5 Autumn Block 5 Perimeter and Area. Each presentation follows the mastery approach of concrete, pictorial and abstract, whilst implementing all aspects of Rosenshine’s principles of instruction.
Each presentation contains:
*A warm-up to start the children’s thinking with AfL and metacognition style questions.
*Guided practice through each new concept, providing models of strategies and worked examples.
*Independent practice through differentiated varied fluency, reasoning and problem-solving questions.
*Plus, a greater depth extension activity to fully show students’ understanding.
*Answer sheets for teacher or students’ self/peer assessment
*Student refection page to discuss the lesson’s objectives and their individual next steps.
This unit contains a presentation for each of the Year 5 Area and Perimeter small steps:
Measure perimeter
Calculate perimeter
Area of rectangles
Area of compound shapes
Area of irregular shapes
-Revised and updated for 2021/22 academic year. If you would like free access to the Year 4 review slides, please contact me directly at mrkeechsclassroom@gmail.com
-This product is not affiliated with nor endorsed by White Rose Maths-
Engaging lesson pack teaching children how to solve area and perimeter word problems. Includes a detailed PowerPoint, worksheets, multi step questions, real world scenarios, differentiation, consolidation of key number skills and all the answers.
Use the step by step input which explains this skill whilst developing independence, confidence and enables pupils to reach the challenge activities.
Delight in seeing your class tackle and solve an extensive bank of questions set in real world contexts. Most are multi step and cover key KS2 number skills.
Develop mastery as this lesson caters to every child, the differentiated worksheets will ensure that every child moves on and that every child makes progress.
Print all the answers included for quick and easy marking.
Hand out the challenges provided so your pupils really master the concepts of area and perimeter.
Finish with an open ended plenary discussion to enhance their reasoning skills and give children the opportunity to discuss and consolidate their learning.
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A lesson PowerPoint with starter, vocabulary, modelling (with teacher notes) and guided practice
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Worksheet with answer sheet
Scaffolded worksheet with answer sheet
Modified worksheet for those who need additional changes to access the learning with answers
Challenge tasks
Support strips that can be stuck in books
Everything is included that could be needed to run the lesson successfully, with each resource carefully considered in ensuring accessibility for all as well as ensuring there are plenty of opportunities for challenge to provide depth of understanding.
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A lesson PowerPoint with starter, vocabulary, modelling (with teacher notes) and guided practice
Lesson plan
Worksheet with answer sheet
Scaffolded worksheet with answer sheet
Modified worksheet for those who need additional changes to access the learning with answers
Challenge tasks
Support strips that can be stuck in books
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