What is Perimeter?
Perimeter of Rectangles
Real-life Perimeter
Which Shape Has This Perimeter?
Find the Perimeter
100

This word means the distance all the way around a shape.

What is Perimeter?

100

A rectangle is 3 units long and 2 units wide. What is the perimeter?

What is 10 units?

100

You want to put a fence around your dog's house by making a rectangle. What are you looking for?

What is the perimeter?

100

Which shape has a perimeter of 12 units:

a.) 3 by 3

b.) 2 by 4

What is shape A?

100

4, 2, 4, 2

What is 12 units?

200

T/F: To find a perimeter, you add all the sides.

What is true?

200

A rectangle has sides 4, 2, 4, and 2. What is the perimeter?

What is 12 units?

200

A sticker is 2 cm by 1 cm. How much border goes around it?

What is 6 cm?

200

Which shape has the greater perimeter:

Square with 4 units on each side or Rectangle that is 5 units by 2 units?


What is Square?

200

5, 5, 3, 3

What is 16 units?

300

What is the perimeter of this shape 1+1+1+1?

What is 4 units?

300

A rectangle is 5 inches by 3 inches. What is the perimeter?

What is 16 inches?

300

You have a book shaped like a rectangle which is 10 inches by 7 inches. What is the perimeter of the book?

What is 34 inches?

300

Which has the perimeter of 10?

a.) 2 by 3

b.) 2 by 5

What is A?

300

12, 12, 5, 5

What is 34 units?

400

If a shape has 4 sides, how many sides do you add in a perimeter?

What is 4 sides?

400

A rectangle has a perimeter of 20 units. One side is 7 units. The opposite side has 7 units. How long are the other two side?

What is 3 units each?

400

A garden is 6 ft long and 4 ft wide. How much fence goes around it?

What is 20 ft?

400

If two shapes have the same perimeter, do they have to look the same?

What is No?

400

Two 3 in. by 2 in. rectangles are touching side-by-side. What is the perimeter of the combined shape?

What is 14 in.?

500

Perimeter tells you how much of ____ you need to go around a garden to keep pest out? 

What is fence?

500

A rectangle is 8 cm long and 2 cm wide. Say the perimeter in a number sentence.

What is 8+2+8+2=20 cm?

500

Your teacher wants to put a border around a bulletin board that is 5 ft by 3 ft. How many feet of border does she need?

What is 16 ft?
500

Which has a perimeter of 14?

a.) 7, 7, 2, 2 

b.) 4, 4, 3, 3

What is B?

500

You have two identical rectangles, each with a length of 5 cm and a width of 5 cm. You place them side-by-side to make one bigger shape. What is the perimeter of the whole shape?

What is 30 cm?

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