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Curriculum content descriptions

Calculate perimeter and area of rectangles using familiar metric units (ACMMG109)

Elaborations
  • exploring efficient ways of calculating the perimeters of rectangles such as adding the length and width together and doubling the result
  • exploring efficient ways of finding the areas of rectangles
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Area,  Length,  Rectangles

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The divider: with or without remainders

  • TLF-IDL2006

Solve divisions such as 147/7 or 157/6 (some have remainders). Use a partitioning tool to help solve randomly generated divisions. Learn strategies to do complex arithmetic in your head. Split a division into parts that are easy to work with, use times tables, then solve the original calculation.

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Playground percentages

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Help a town planner to design two site plans for a school. Assign regions on a 10x10 grid for different uses such as a playground, canteen, car park or lawn. Calculate the percentage of the total site used for each region. Use a number line to display fractions and equivalent fractions.

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Giant hole: climb through a hole in a sheet of paper

  • TLF-IDM008993

This teaching resource outlines an activity for students to explore the relationship between the area and perimeter of a shape, by using a series of cuts in a piece of paper to create a hole large enough to step through. The resource includes detailed instructions for creating the cuts in the paper, an explanation of how ...

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