Take a walk around the edge!

16
6 10 cm
The perimeter
is…

6cm
32cm !
32

22
 Take a walk around the edge!
8
The perimeter
is…

8cm
8cm
26 26 cm !
16

10 cm
 12 16
Take a walk around the edge!

This is a regular
8
octagon with sides 20
The perimeter
4 cm is…

4 32 cm !
24

32 28
 Take a walk around 30
the edge!
This shape
has sides of
The perimeter
5 cm each
is…
15
60 cm !

45
60
 First we need to find he length of each side by
counting the squares.

8 cm

The distance
around the
6 cm 6 cm outside of a shape
is called the
perimeter.
8 cm

The perimeter of the shape is 8 + 6 + 8 + 6 = 28cm.

L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 5 cm
perimeter
10 cm

30 cm 50 cm

15 cm 25 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 6 cm
perimeter
11 cm

14 cm 66 cm

55 cm 34 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 2 cm
perimeter
8 cm

30 cm 16 cm

15 cm 20 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 8 cm
perimeter
12 cm

30 cm 40 cm

128 cm 20 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 3 cm
perimeter
7 cm

30 cm 21 cm

20 cm 10 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 4 cm
perimeter
9 cm

30 cm 26 cm

20 cm 10 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 8 cm
perimeter
12 cm

30 cm 21 cm

40 cm 10 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 3 cm
perimeter
7 cm

30 cm 21 cm

20 cm 10 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 5cm
perimeter
7 cm

24 cm 21 cm

20 cm 10 cm
L.O. calculating area and perimeter

Find 4 cm
perimeter
10 cm

30 cm 21 cm

20 cm 28 cm
Do we have to measure every side
to work out the perimeter?
5cm

2cm 2cm

5cm
4cm 4cm

4cm
Do we have to measure every side
to work out the perimeter?
5cm

2cm 2cm

5cm
4cm 4cm

4cm
Do we have to measure every side
to work out the perimeter?
5cm

2cm 2cm

5cm
4cm 4cm

4cm
Do we have to measure every side
to work out the perimeter?
5cm

2cm 2cm

5cm
4cm 4cm

4cm
Do we have to measure every side
to work out the perimeter?
5cm

2cm 2cm

5cm
4cm 4cm

4cm
 Write down the perimeter for each
shape. Which shapes have the same
perimeter?
a b c

d
 Write down the perimeter for each
shape. Which shapes have the same
perimeter?
a b c

Perimeter =
12cm Perimeter =
8cm

Perimeter = e
12cm

Perimeter =
d 22cm Perimeter =
14cm
L.O. Investigating perimeter - finding all possibilities

A farmer has a goat pen which uses 36 m of fencing.

One night, during a storm, the goat pen is destroyed.

The farmer wants to re-build the rectangular goat pen, but has only
36m of fencing and cannot remember the exact dimensions from the
first pen.

Can you help ?

Remember:

• the pen is rectangular

• only 36m of fence can be used

 18cm
18cm

22cm
18cm

26cm
 Now find the
perimeter of these
shapes. They are
not drawn to
scale.

4cm 4cm
3cm 5cm

3cm 3cm 3cm 3cm

7cm 7cm 3cm 3cm

3cm 3cm
4cm 4cm
3cm 3cm

Perimeter = 18cm Perimeter = 22cm Perimeter = 28cm

To find out how much shape is inside we can
count the squares.

The area of a
shape is the
amount of space
inside it.

The area of the shape is 18cm2.

 2
12cm

What is the area of

2 each of these shapes?
26cm
Your teacher will give
you copy of the
worksheet.

2
26cm
 This is an irregular
shape. This means
that the sides aren’t
straight.

To find the area of

an irregular shape
you first count the
full squares inside
it.
 You then count all
the other squares
which have more
than half the area
covered.

The area of the shape is 60cm2.

 2
24cm 25cm
2

What is the area of

each of these shapes?
Your teacher will give
you copy of the
worksheet.

2
35cm

22cm2
The rectangle is made of 6 rows of 8 squares.

To work out the number of squares

we times 6 by 8.

Counting each
square can take a
long time. Does
anyone know a
quicker way?

The area of the shape is 48cm2.

 2
2 18cm
20cm

What is the area of

each of these shapes?
2
30cm Your teacher will give
14cm2 you copy of the
worksheet.

2
22cm
We can work out the area of a rectangle
without the grid.

length

width
Area = length x width
 Now work out the
area of these
rectangles.
They are not drawn
to scale.
7cm
5cm

35cm2 5cm 20cm2 4cm

9cm 36cm 2

12.5cm
4cm
2cm 25cm2
 4cm Total area = 40 + 32 = 72 cm2

2cm

4cm To find the area of

Area =
10cm
4 x 10 this shape we
Area =
4x8 8cm have to split it up
2
40cm into two
32cm
2
rectangles.

8cm

A shape that is
made from other
shapes is known
as a composite
shape.
 5cm
Find the area and
perimeter of each of
2cm these shapes? Your
teacher will give you
4cm copy of the worksheet.
9cm 5cm
2cm
4cm

2cm
11cm 5cm
5cm
4cm 3cm 4cm

3cm 3cm
4cm 6cm
7cm 7cm

6cm

11cm
 5cm

2cm

Area = 4cm
Area =
5x9 4x5
9cm 5cm
45cm
2 20cm2
4cm

2cm

5cm

2
Total area = 45 + 20 = 65 cm

Perimeter = 36 cm
 2
Total area = 10 + 36 = 46 cm

Perimeter = 34 cm
2cm

11cm 5cm
Area =
2x5 4cm

2
10cm Area =
6x6 6cm

36cm2
6cm
 2
Total area = 28 + 16 + 21 = 65 cm

Perimeter = 42 cm

Area = Area = There is

4x7 4x4
2 2
another way of
28cm 16cm
doing this
4cm 3cm question.
3cm 3cm
Area =
4cm 3x7
7cm 7cm 21cm2

11cm
 2
Total area = 77 – 12 = 65 cm

Perimeter = 42 cm

Area =
3 x 4 12cm2

4cm 3cm

3cm 3cm
4cm
7cm 7cm
Area = 2
7 x 11 77cm

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 Name:____________________
Review

What is the area of the moon?

_____________________cm2

What is the area of the rectangle?

2
_____________________cm

What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

_____________________cm
 What is the area of the house?
2
_____________________cm

4cm

4cm What is the area of the compound shape?

2
2cm _____________________cm
8cm

What is the perimeter of the compound shape?

4cm
_____________________cm
6cm