In this activity, aimed at lower primary level, children become familiar with a range of fruit and vegetables and develop an awareness of the parts of a plant that are eaten. Children handle and observe the texture, smell, and colour of different fruit and vegetables. They then decide in groups which part of a...

This exciting resource consists of nine practical activities based upon the search for exoplanets, (planets beyond our own solar system), where life may exist. Aimed at primary children aged 7–11, activities are based around working scientifically  and link to many aspects of the science curriculum including; space...

A STEM teaching and learning resource that explores engineering through the technology we communicate and connect with.

This video asks the question, “When are you lightest?”.  Most people state that this is in the morning.  An experiment is conducted to find out. This shows that there is a loss in mass in the morning.  The question is then, “How does the body loose this mass?”.  The answer is a combination of water loss and the...

This resource consists of seventeen work cards each requiring students to investigate some aspect of area and perimeter of shapes. Associated with each card is a student help sheet and comprehensive teacher notes detailing assumed knowledge for each task, the purpose of...

Two parabolas are shown, one with a positive quadratic coefficient, the other with a negative quadratic coefficient. Each has the same linear coefficient and between the...

Area Builder gives students the opportunity to build any shape and explore the relationship between the area of a shape and the length of its perimeter. The “Game Screen” contains two kinds of challenges: Build a shape and Find the area. There are different levels of increasing difficulty. The teacher notes give...

This matching exercise consists of six shapes, six perimeters and six areas . The shapes are an isosceles triangle, a square, a compound shapes made from two rectangles and compound shapes made from a rectangle and a triangle. Dimensions are provided on the diagrams of the shapes, however, in some cases extra...

Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), these resources are aimed at mathematics practitioners.

Sessions in this resource look at:

• Area and perimeter (creating connections between topics)
• Area and perimeter (exposing and discussing common misconceptions)
•...

These 20 instant maths ideas, ideal for use as starter questions, extension question or probing questions to assess understanding, require students to explore the perimeters of rectangles which have the same area, convert between different units, investigate Pick’s theorem, explore the four colour theorem,...

This resource, aimed at early years and lower primary, contains a collection of dynamic and interactive spreadsheets designed to illustrate teaching points on the topics of area and perimeter. Ideal for use with the whole class at the start or end of a lesson it...

This resource consists of two interactive excel files.

Area and Perimeter: Algebraic, Rectangles
The first two sheets...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of area and perimeter, from calculating area by counting squares to finding the formula for the area of a trapezium.

Area and Perimeter pack one ...

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...

This collection contains resources from the website 1001mathproblems.com by Sian Zelbo. Areas and perimeters are presented in different contexts such as puzzles and games. In addition, there are several problems that require spatial reasoning. There are often several different ways to tackle the puzzles. The...