This shape has 4 equal sides and 4 right angles.
Square
What do we add to find the perimeter?
All the sides
How do you find the area?
Length × width
A classroom is 6 m long and 4 m wide. What is the area?
24 m²
True or False: A rectangle can be long and skinny.
True
This shape has 4 sides and 4 right angles, but not all sides are the same length.
Rectangle
What is the perimeter?
12 cm
What is the area?

60 cm²
A fence is 8 m long and 4 m wide. What is the area?
32 m²
True or False: A square is a rectangle.
True
This shape has 3 sides.
Triangle
A square has sides of 5 cm. What is the perimeter?
20 cm
What is the area?

36 cm²
A rectangle has a perimeter of 20 cm. One side is 6 cm. What is the other side?
4 cm
A room is shaped like a rectangle. Which do we use to find how much space is inside?
Area or Perimeter
Area
Draw a rectangle that is 5 cm long and 3 cm wide.

A rectangle has sides 6 cm and 4 cm. Is the perimeter 20 cm?
Yes
The area is 24 cm². The length is 6 cm. What is the width?
4 cm
A rectangle has an area of 30 m². The width is 5 m. What is the length?
6 m
This shape is NOT a square. It has 4 right angles. What shape is it?
Rectangle
What is the difference between a square and a rectangle?
A square:
All 4 sides are the same length
A rectangle:
Not all sides are the same length
Find the perimeter.

6+4+4+3+2+7 = 26 cm
The area is 36 cm². All sides are equal. What is the length of one side?
6 cm
A fence goes around a rectangle park. The park is 12 m long and 8 m wide. How many meters of fence are needed?
40 m
We want to know how many meters of fence we need. Do we find the area or the perimeter?
Perimeter