Real World Use
Perimeter
Area
Word...
100
What does perimeter measure?
What is the outside/around a shape.
100
A rectangular piece of cheese is 9 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the cheese?
28 centimeters
100
Sarah is painting a picture where each side measures 5 inches. How much paint will she need to cover the square picture?
20 square feet
100
What is the area of a shape if it has the height of 5 ft and a width of 5 ft?
25 square feet
200
What does area measure?
The inside of a shape
200
What is the perimeter of the tv?
84 inches
200
Lucy is counting the ceiling tiles in her gym. There are 7 rows with 4in each row. How many tiles are there in all?
28
200
What is the perimeter of a square with sides measuring 8 feet?
32 feet
300
To build a fence, I would measure...
perimeter
300
A rectangular table is 20 inches long 35 inches wide. What is the perimeter of the table?
55 inches
300
Karen's grandma is making her a quilt. The quilt has 3 square foot blocks with 8 square foot blocks in each row. What is the area of the quilt?
24 square feet
300
What is the area of a shape if it has the height of 10 ft and a width of 10 ft?
100 square feet
400
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
400
Sarah is putting fence around her garden. She know the perimeter is 16 feet. She has already fenced in three sides each measuring 4 feet. How much more fence does she need to finish fencing in her garden?
4feet
400
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
400
Mrs. Joni wants her husband to build us a new tree house. She wants it to make it bigger and asks that he makes it 10 feet in width and 9 feet in height. What will be the area of the new tree house?
90 square feet
500
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.
500
Terry is putting trim around a triangular picture frame. He knows he needs 16 centimeters of trim. Two of the sides are both 10 centimeters long. How long is the third side?
6 centimeters
500
Josh put a table that is 8 feet wide by 7 feet long. What is the area of the table?
56 square feet
500
Mrs. Myers wants to add on a new addition to the school. If the school already measures 2000 feet squared, what will be the new area of the school if the new addition measures 7 feet in width and 7 feet in length?
49 square feet