What does perimeter measure?
What is the outside/around a shape.
A rectangular piece of cheese is 9 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the cheese?
28 centimeters
Sarah is painting a picture where each side measures 12 inches. How much paint will she need to cover the square picture?
48 square feet
What does area measure?
The inside of a shape
Sarah is putting fence around her garden. She know the perimeter is 48 feet. She has already fenced in three sides each measuring 12 feet. How much more fence does she need to finish fencing in her garden?
12 feet
Lucy is counting the ceiling tiles in her gym. There are 46 rows with 9 in each row. How many tiles are there in all?
414
To build a fence, I would measure...
perimeter
A rectangular table is 98 centimeters long 45 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the table?
286 cm
Karen's grandma is making her a quilt. The quilt has 6 square foot blocks with 12 square foot blocks in each row. What is the area of the quilt?
72 square feet
Mr. Stimmell wants to buy carpet for a new tree house, what will he use to find how much carpet he needs to buy?
area
What is the perimeter of the tv?
84 inches
Sarah has a square garden. She wants to buy mulch to fill the garden. She knows the sides are all 16 feet. How much mulch will she need?
64 square feet
You are building a playground, and need to build a fence and put mulch inside of the fence. Will you have to measure for area or perimeter?
Area for the mulch
Perimeter for the fence.
Terry is putting trim around a triangular picture frame. He knows he needs 27 centimeters of trim. Two of the sides are both 8 centimeters long. How long is the third side?
11 centimeters
Josh put a table that is 8 feet wide by 7 feet long. What is the area of the table?
56 square feet