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Practising Grade 5 math: 'Use area and perimeter to determine cost'

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Fun math practice! Improve your skills with free problems in 'Use area and perimeter to determine cost' and thousands of other practice lessons.

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IXL - Area & Perimeter of Irregular Shapes

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IXL - Area & Perimeter of Irregular Shapes

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Practising Grade 5 math: 'Area and perimeter of figures on grids'

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Fun math practice! Improve your skills with free problems in 'Area and perimeter of figures on grids' and thousands of other practice lessons.

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Practising Grade 5 math: 'Area of squares and rectangles'

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Fun math practice! Improve your skills with free problems in 'Area of squares and rectangles' and thousands of other practice lessons.

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Practising Grade 5 math: 'Perimeter with whole number side lengths'

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Fun math practice! Improve your skills with free problems in 'Perimeter with whole number side lengths' and thousands of other practice lessons.

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Area & Perimeter Game - Imperial Units

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Welcome to ZooDesigner. You have been hired to design five enclosures for the animals at a local zoo. You have to use your knowledge of how to calculate area and perimeter to design the correct enclosures and to earn your ZooDesigner Points. Use the blueprint area to sketch out the dimensions (area, perimeter, or area and perimeter) of the enclosure. If you design the enclosures incorrectly, the animals will escape and the zoo visitors will run for their lives. You, of course, will be fired!

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Welcome to ZooDesigner. You have been hired to design five enclosures for the animals at a local zoo. You have to use your knowledge of how to calculate area and perimeter to design the correct enclosures and to earn your ZooDesigner Points. Use the blueprint area to sketch out the dimensions (area, perimeter, or area and perimeter) of the enclosure. If you design the enclosures incorrectly, the animals will escape and the zoo visitors will run for their lives. You, of course, will be fired!

Zoo Designer is perfect for kids ages 9-11, Grade Levels: 4-5 (apx.)

Scoring Breakdown and Grade Level Equivalency

Round

Grade Level Equivalency

2

4.0

3

4.3

4

4.6

5

4.9 (mastery)

Skills Reinforced:

Finding Area

Finding Perimeter

Finding Area and Perimeter

Multiplication

Extensions

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Welcome to ZooDesigner. You have been hired to design five enclosures for the animals at a local zoo. You have to use your knowledge of how to calculate area and perimeter to design the correct enclosures and to earn your ZooDesigner Points.

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How-To Lesson

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How-To Lesson

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Review how to find the area of a triangle when the triangle is superimposed on graph paper.

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Suitable for grades 4 - 7, Shape Surveyor lets you calculate the area & perimeter of each shape. Complete the puzzle to win. Play Shape Surveyor online, here.

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Interactivate: Shape Explorer

Shape Explorer: Learn the relationship between perimeter and area. A random shape will be automatically generated. Calculate the area and perimeter of this shape. Shape Explorer is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers.

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Interactivate: Shape Explorer On a mission to transform learning through computational thinking, Shodor is dedicated to the reform and improvement of mathematics and science education through student enrichment, faculty enhancement, and interactive curriculum development at all levels. Student development of numerical models and simulations integrated with core curriculum provides an opportunity to gain practical experience in computational science.

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How-To Lesson

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How To Find The Area and Perimeter Of A Square!

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How-To Lesson

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How-To Lesson

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Math is Fun

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Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.

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Example:

These shapes all have the same area of 9:

It helps to imagine how much paint would cover the shape.

Area of Simple Shapes

There are special formulas for certain shapes:

Example: What is the area of this rectangle?

The formula is:

The width is 5, and the height is 3, so we know w = 5 and h = 3:

Area = 5 × 3 = 15

Learn more at Area of Plane Shapes.

Area by Counting Squares

We can also put the shape on a grid and count the number of squares:

The rectangle has an area of
15

Example: When each square is 1 cm on a side, then the area is (15 square cm)

Approximate Area by Counting Squares

Sometimes the squares don't match the shape exactly, but we can get an "approximate" answer.

One way is:

Like this:

This pentagon has an area of approximately 17

Or we can count one square when the areas seem to add up.

Example: Here the area marked " 4" seems equal to about 1 whole square (also for " 8"):

This circle has an area of approximately 14

But using a formula (when possible) is best:

Example: The circle has a radius of 2.1 meters:

The formula is:

Where:

The radius is 2.1m, so:

So the circle has an area of 13.85 square meters (to 2 decimal places)

Area of Difficult Shapes

We can sometimes break a shape up into two or more simpler shapes:

Example: What is the area of this Shape?

Let's break the area into two parts:

Part A is a square:

Part B is a triangle. Viewed sideways it has a base of 20m and a height of 14m.

So the total area is:

Area by Adding Up Triangles

We can also break up a shape into triangles:

Then measure the base ( b) and height ( h) of each triangle:

Then calculate each area (using Area = ½b × h) and add them all up.

Area by Coordinates

When we know the coordinates of each corner point we can use the Area of Irregular Polygons method.

There is an Area of a Polygon by Drawing Tool that can help too.

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These shapes all have the same area of 9: It helps to imagine how much paint would cover the shape. There are special formulas for certain shapes: The formula is: The width is 5, and the height is 3, so we know w = 5 and h = 3: Area = 5 × 3 = 15 Learn more at Area of Plane Shapes.

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Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.

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Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.

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Tes elements is your new home for accessing Tes Number, Phonics, SPaG and iBoard content, plus hundreds of other fun and innovative, curriculum-aligned games and activities.

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Give all your staff access to 1000s of interactive, fun teaching resources - a jam-packed collection of Spag, number and phonics resources, and much, much more - all fully mapped to the national curriculum. Raise the attainment levels of your pupils, and help take a weight off the workload of your school's most valuable resource - the teachers!

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Math Games: Metric Ruler Game - Measurement

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Convert Metric Volume and CentiLiters in this educational math matching game.

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Convert Centimeters to Meters and Centimeters in this educational math matching game.

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Practising Grade 4 math: 'Compare and convert metric units of length'

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Fun math practice! Improve your skills with free problems in 'Compare and convert metric units of length' and thousands of other practice lessons.

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Practising Grade 4 math: 'Choose the appropriate metric unit of measure'

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Fun math practice! Improve your skills with free problems in 'Choose the appropriate metric unit of measure' and thousands of other practice lessons.

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Converting measurements - metric distance made easy

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It is easy to convert metric lengths - from kilometres to metres to centimtres to millimetres. Learn how to do this instantly.

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Centimeters (cm) / Millimeters (mm)

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Centimeters (cm) / Millimeters (mm)