It's what's inside that counts
The formula for area.
What is area = length x width?
The formula for perimeter.
What is length + width + length + width?
Tom has a poster that is 5 feet long and 3 feet wide. He wants to put a wooden frame around the poster. Tom needs this length of wood to frame his poster.
What is 16 feet of wood?
You use addition to measure this.
What is perimetre?
A square that is 5 mm long has this area.
What is 25 mm2?
A rectangle with a length of 14 m and width of 7 m is this big.
What is an area of 98 m2?
A rectangle 7 metres wide and 17 metres long.
What is a perimeter of 48 metres?
Sally's table takes up 36 square feet. The length of the pool table is 9 feet. Sally's table is this wide.
What is 4 feet?
What is area?
A pentagon that is 7 km long on all sides has this perimeter.
What is 35 km long?
A square with an area of 49 cm2 is this long.
What is 7 cm long?
A rectangle 25 cm long, with a perimeter of 88 cm is this wide.
What is 19 cm wide?
Hannah and Sally are planting gardens. Hannah's garden is 2 x 8 m long. Sally's garden is 4 x 4 m long. They want to put fencing around their gardens. This person needs more fencing.
Who is Hannah?
The length of ribbon you need to wrap a birthday present.
What is a perimeter?
An octagon that is 3 m long on all sides has this perimeter.
A rectangle with an area of 84 cm2 that is 12 cm long is this wide.
What is 7 cm wide?
A rectangle with an area of 16 cm2, that is 4 cm wide is this long.
What is 4 cm wide?
Ben is painting his room. He paints 3 walls. Each wall is 5 metres wide and 2 metres tall. Ben has to paint this area of wall.
What is 30 m2?
The distance it takes to run around the school.
What is perimeter?
A regular hexagon that has a 2 centimetre long side has this perimeter.
A rectangle with an area of 128 square units that is 8 units wide is this long.
What is 16 units long?
A triangle whose sides are 3 m, 10 m and 12 m has this perimeter.
What is a perimeter of 25 m?
Farmer Mike is taking measurements of his field to replace the old fences. The corn field has an area of 72 m2. The field is 8 m long. The field needs this length of fence.
What is 34 m of fence?
You need to measure this to know what size sheet to buy for your bed.
What is the area?
A rhombus with a perimeter of 24 cm has sides that are this long.
What is 6 cm each?