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Can you draw a shape in which the area is numerically equal to its perimeter? And another? Can you draw a shape in which the perimeter is numerically twice the area? Can you draw a shape in which the area is numerically twice the perimeter? Can you make the area of your shape go up but the perimeter go down? Can you make the perimeter of your shape go up but the area go down?    Can you draw some shapes that have the same area but different perimeters? Can you draw some shapes that have the same perimeter but different areas?  

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Our Area and Perimeter KS2 Worksheets are an excellent way for young learners to improve their ability to calculate the area and perimeter of different geometric shapes. These worksheets are perfect resources for teachers as well as parents, and suitable for your KS2 learners. These PDF printable worksheets include various fun and engaging activities such as comparing areas and perimeters, calculating the area of triangles, rectangles and squares, determining the edge of different shapes and many more exercises. Using these visual resources, teachers can ensure that all students understand the concepts being taught and even use them as homework to test their knowledge. Additionally, worksheets provide an easy way for educators to motivate students to develop problem-solving skills while learning and practising these essential maths concepts.

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What Are Area and Perimeter in Geometry?

In geometry, area and perimeter are two basic and important concepts related to shapes. The concept of area can be ex[plained as the amount of space enclosed within a shape, like the paintable surface of a wall. It’s measured in square units, such as square centimetres or square metres. Whereas, the idea of perimeter refers to the total length of the boundaries of a shape, akin to the length of a fence needed to enclose a garden. For a rectangle, the perimeter is the sum of all its four sides, while its area is found by multiplying its length by its width. Understanding area and perimeter is essential in tasks ranging from carpeting rooms to planning garden layouts.

Definitions of Area and Perimeter

What exactly do we mean by Area and Perimeter?

Area represents the amount of space enclosed within a specific shape. It is basically a measure of the two-dimensional space that any shape covers. For example, while painting a room, the amount of paint needed depends on the area of the walls. Area is always measured in square units, such as square centimetres or square metres. One essential property of the area is that it remains unchanged even if the shape is rotated or reflected. Whether you’re planning a garden or laying tiles, understanding the area is crucial to determine how much space you’re working with.

Perimeter explains the total length of the boundaries or edges of a shape. Imagine if you were to walk around the edge of a garden; the distance you’d cover is the garden’s perimeter. For regular geometric shapes like rectangles or triangles, the perimeter is found by adding the lengths of all the sides. One key characteristic of the perimeter is that if you scale (enlarge or reduce) a shape uniformly, its perimeter changes in direct proportion. In everyday tasks like fencing a plot or framing a picture, knowing the perimeter helps ensure you have enough material to cover the boundary.

Use of Area and Perimeter in Real Life

In our daily lives, the concepts of area and perimeter are often used in various different aspects. Imagine you are trying to  redecorate your room: now, in this case, the area determines how much wallpaper or paint you’d need for the walls, while the perimeter tells you the length of skirting board required. When building a fence around a garden, the perimeter gives the total length of fencing needed. Meanwhile, if you’re laying turf or planting flowers, the area of the garden dictates how much material is required. Even in sports fields, the perimeter represents the track’s length, and the area denotes the playing space. Thus, from home projects to larger constructions, understanding area and perimeter is vital for efficient planning and resource allocation.

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Area and Perimeter

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of area and perimeter, from calculating area by counting squares to finding the formula for the area of a trapezium.

Area and Perimeter pack one  contains fourteen work cards with a wide variety of activities covering finding areas by counting squares, finding the length of perimeters by counting, developing the formula for the area of a rectangle, drawing different shapes with a given perimeter, finding different shapes with a given area and finding the area of simple compound shapes.

Area and Perimeter pack two  contains eleven work cards with activities requiring students to make shapes of a given size using pentominoes, investigate the area and perimeter of rectangles, find the area of a right-angled triangle, calculate the area of polygons drawn on square dotted paper, investigate different ways of shading half a square, find the area of a triangle, find the area of compound shapes made from rectangles and find the area of a parallelogram.

Area and Perimeter pack three  contains eleven work cards with activities in which students investigate the connections between the area of a parallelogram and the area of a rectangle, the area of obtuse-angled triangles, further parallelogram problems, finding the area of a polygon, finding the area of a trapezium and calculating the area of irregular shapes.

SMILE (Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment) was initially developed as a series of practical activities for secondary school students by practising teachers in the 1970s. It became a complete individualised scheme based around a network of activity cards and assessments. Related resources include answers  to all of the cards and test books and answers .

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How To Teach KS2 Area And Perimeter: A Guide For Primary Teachers

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Area and perimeter in KS2 form an important part of the primary maths national curriculum. To help you with your maths planning we have created the only place you will need to go to for tips on how to teach these topics in primary school.

Teaching area and perimeter in KS2 can be a surprisingly tricky task.

On the one hand it lends itself very much to doing active and practical lessons – getting to grips with using rulers and darting around the room measuring chairs and tables – which the students tend to love.

However, it also needs to progress to a concrete understanding of the mathematics involved, which can then be applied to multiple scenarios and word problems using known number facts such as multiplication.

Then it starts to get more complex.

When the shapes stop being perfect regular squares and rectangles, and measurements stop being in whole digits, it all gets a bit messy.

So, although practical tasks are a brilliant introduction and work well alongside all stages of progression, getting the maths mastered, fully understood, and embedded early on really is fundamental.

This guide to teaching area and perimeter for KS2 breaks down what each year group is expected to learn in these topics, and gives you activities that work alongside the national curriculum for England to ensure that your pupils are progressing consistently.

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KS2 Area and Perimeter Year 3

National Curriculum requirements for Year 3:

The national curriculum contains both statutory requirements and non statutory guidance.

Statutory Requirements – Pupils should be taught to:

  • Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)  
  • Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes

Guidance (non-statutory):

Primary pupils should continue to measure using the appropriate tools and units, progressing to using a wider range of measures, including comparing and using mixed units (for example, 1 kg and 200g) and simple equivalents of mixed units (for example, 5m = 500cm).

The comparison of measures includes simple scaling by integers (for example, a given quantity or measure is twice as long or five times as high) and this connects to multiplication.

Practical area and perimeter lesson ideas for Year 3:

When introducing perimeter in Year 3 it is a great time to start with practical tasks such as measuring things.

However, you need to be careful.

Make sure that the items you are measuring are in fact regular shapes as more complicated shapes could cause confusion at this point.

Asking pupils to just go around measuring chairs and tables in the classroom for example, can confuse those who need the most support before they have even started.

ks2 area and perimeter measuring task

Often chairs and tables are NOT perfectly equal on each side, have slightly rounded corners which also means they may measure 4.7cm on one side and 4.9cm on the opposite side.

Although not a problem when dealing simply with measuring perimeter, this will cause issues when you start to look at regular shapes on paper and in tests where only some of the measurements are given – as pupils will not assume the other sides are exactly the same.

You will also want to avoid using the common 2D shaped plastic trays often used in classrooms. Whilst they are good for teaching shape properties at a basic level, they are technically 3D shapes (as they have to be in order for you to hold them).

This then throws up the question of whether to measure the depth of the shape for perimeter and so on which you don’t want to tackle yet.

An area and perimeter game – Sticky Shapes!

A good trick to solve this dilemma is to tape out some shapes onto the hall floor (or your classroom carpet if you have the space!) for pupils to measure. Masking tape works best as you can write names of sides on them.

Masking Tape Shapes - KS2 Area and Perimeter

You will have carefully measured them out while taping them so you know all the measurements before the lesson begins.

Label them A, B, C and so on.

Then it is time to bring in your pupils, equipped with rulers, to measure up each of the sides. At this stage if you are introducing the concept it is good to give them a table to complete which contains the labels given to each side.

Here’s an example:

Area and Perimeter KS2 Table

This enables the pupils to fill in the length of each side, and in this example, the shapes would all be regular and four sided.

However, you may have more than four sides for some shapes so make sure you explain that in these cases they should all be the same, and you will need to alter your table as is needed.

The theory behind teaching area and perimeter to Year 3:

Once your pupils have measured all the shapes and completed the table, draw the shapes up on the whiteboard.

Ask your pupils to share the lengths for the shape corresponding to the one you have drawn on the whiteboard. Then, the next step is to walk them through how we use those measurements to find the perimeter of the shape and then the area.

You would do this over a few lessons in the first instance. Looking at perimeter first as a “Side w + side x + side y + side z = Perimeter” number sentence.

KS2 Area and Perimeter Year 4

National Curriculum requirements for Year 4:

  • Convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute]  
  • Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres  
  • Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares

Perimeter can be expressed algebraically as 2(a + b) where a and b are the dimensions in the same unit.

ks2 area and perimeter measurements slide.

Practical area and perimeter lesson ideas for Year 4

As well as lots of practice measuring and calculating perimeters, building on work in Year 3, in Year 4 we introduce counting squares as a way to find the area of shapes.

A simple way to introduce this is on squared paper with some shapes you create, then moving to the pupils creating their own shapes and designs which they can then find the area of.

If you want to make this topical then Christmas is a nice time to ask them to design a Christmas tree – using only full and diagonally-halved squares when they are confident with just whole squares.

This also lends itself to symmetry work for a bonus maths double! You could give them half the tree and ask them to colour in the other half as a mirror image and then find the area of the full tree.

If Christmas is still a while away when you are reading this post, the you can simply use another tree or get history involved and create the pyramids!

The theory behind teaching area and perimeter to Year 4

When giving out shapes for pupils to find the area of by counting squares, include plenty of regular shapes, alongside irregular ones, and ask them to find the perimeter of these as well as the area.

Square Shapes for KS2 area and perimeter

With carefully chosen examples you can then look for patterns in area and explore the link between their times tables knowledge and the area of regular shapes.

This is also a good time to introduce the algebraic function of 2(a + b) to find perimeter. If you do the link to symmetry in the practical as explained above, this also helps to reinforce why the ‘2’ is important here and you can look at which shapes this works for and which it does not from your variety of options.

This often looks like a lot to cram into a couple of lessons but actually when doing the practical with enough examples pupils tend to start finding patterns and rules for themselves and explaining them.

KS2 Area and Perimeter Year 5

National Curriculum requirements for Year 5:

  • Convert between different units of metric measure (for example, kilometre and metre; centimetre and metre; centimetre and millimetre; gram and kilogram; litre and millilitre)  
  • Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as inches, pounds and pints  
  • Measure and calculate the perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes in centimetres and metres  
  • Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm2 ) and square metres (m2 ) and estimate the area of irregular shapes

Pupils should be able to calculate the perimeter of shapes at KS2, namely rectangles and related composite shapes, including using the relations of perimeter or area to find unknown lengths.

Missing measures questions such as these can be expressed algebraically, for example 4 + 2b = 20 for a rectangle of sides 2 cm and b cm, and a perimeter of 20cm.

Pupils should also be able to calculate the area from scale drawings using given measurements.

Practical area and perimeter lesson ideas for Year 5

In Year 5 it is important to introduce a more problem solving approach to area and perimeter questions.

This is in order to encourage flexibility of thinking for those students who still think of perimeter and area as only being easy to find and estimate if it is a regular shape.

There are two different approaches I like to use for this:

1. Give pupils squared paper and ask them to make as many variations of shapes as they can with a set amount of squares coloured in.

For example, see how many ways you can lay out 4 squares. Once they have had some time at this – and likely come up with the obvious versions such as 4 squares in a line, in a 2×2 square, in an ‘L’ shape etc…remind them that they could also colour some half squares to make new shapes so long as a total of 4 is used.

Square shapes activity for KS2 area and perimeter

They will now create some more wild and wacky examples no doubt! You can then challenge them to make some shapes using 5 squares, 6 squares, and so on (not necessarily in order). This will help students to realise that compound shapes and totally irregular shapes can all have the same areas.

2. Introduce word problems which require them to apply their knowledge of calculating perimeter and area alongside problem solving skills.

For example give out some scale drawings of your house and ask a number of questions such as:

I need to order new carpet for my lounge and stairs, so how much will I need to order?

I need some skirting board to go round the edge of the room once the carpet it is, so how much will I need to order if they sell it in lengths of 3m?

You could also include prices for an extension task and ask them to price up the best bargains when given some prices in m and some in cm so that they need to do conversions.

The theory behind teaching area and perimeter to Year 5

It is important for pupils to move away from more regular shapes but also use them in compound shape problems.

Therefore, allowing pupils to cut out shapes from their squared paper OR use dienes cubes to support them can help them to “see” the physical space they are dealing with.

Lego also works well for this – I know this sounds more practical than theoretical now but it really is often the way to get the theory in more explicitly – and can then be used to relate the practical to the number sentences and algebra used with perimeter and area.

Be careful with Lego and similar physical tools though , as it is important that they are used for the theory to aid the number sentences and not the measuring skills as they are not square when looking at them from the side.

KS2 Area and Perimeter Year 6

National Curriculum requirements for Year 6:

  • Solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to three decimal places where appropriate  
  • Use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to three decimal places  
  • Convert between miles and kilometres  
  • Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa

They relate the area of rectangles to parallelograms and triangles, for example, by dissection, and calculate their areas, understanding and using the formulae (in words or symbols) to do this.

Practical area and perimeter lesson ideas for Year 6

In Year 6 we are getting close to test scenarios so it is vital that pupils are able to manipulate their knowledge of area and perimeter.

So now it is key to ensure they are confident applying both the practical (measuring) and the theoretical (calculating and using algebra), and it is useful to practice this with a variety of shapes with missing information.

Some could be compound shapes with some lines not marked while others have a mixture of mm and cm, forcing them to make conversions before working out the missing measurements.

Others could have some shaded sections within a regular shape such as a rectangle.

They can then use their knowledge to work out the area and missing perimeter measurements. You should also ensure they have lots of practice of measuring shapes too.

Simply using a ruler to measure to good degrees of accuracy will be vital when the SATs come around.

Ensure they have plenty of chance to practice with irregular shapes and making estimates of area based on skeleton information.

The theory behind teaching area and perimeter to Year 6

You ideally want every pupil confident on the algebraic links with area and perimeter but realistically you will have some pupils who still struggle with that. Therefore, you should ensure they are really secure on the ‘long hand’ versions of working those out so that they can tackle any questions with a good degree of confidence.

Teaching KS2 area and perimeter – Remaining regular is key!

All of the above examples and ideas can, of course, be adapted throughout the years to show progression through the same activities applying increasing skill level with a wider range of shapes and compound shapes.

The key with area and perimeter, if I were to sum it up for me, would be to regularly practise to be sure pupils have the basics secure, and from that you can build and add ever more complex shapes.

As long as pupils can manipulate the mathematics on a basic shape then the skills required will build from there.

Often we try to chuck too many random factors in too early on – which is like trying to manipulate numbers without a secure grasp of number bonds.

So do not be afraid to spend lots of time on the “easy” shapes at the start until you are sure that everyone has a good grasp of the concepts before you move on.

This article is one of many available on the place to support excellent mastery teaching of KS2 maths . Topic guides also exist on teaching place value , multiplication and division and decimals at KS2.

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Area and Perimeter

The area of a shape is the space inside the shape. Area is measured in squares.

Finding the area of a rectangle

Here is a rectangle drawn on a centimetre grid.

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To find the area of a rectangle multiply the length by the width. (We could also count the squares but this will not work from more complex questions)

In this example we have a length of 6cm and a width of 3cm.

Area = length × width Area = 6 × 3 Area = 18 cm 2

The units are cm 2 : one cm 2 is a square that measures 1cm by 1 cm.

Example 1: A rectangle is drawn on a centimetre grid Calculate the area of the rectangle

area and perimeter problem solving ks2

Area = length × width Area = 5 × 4 Area = 20cm 2

A rectangle is drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the area of the rectangle.

Finding the area of a triangle

We can think of a triangle as half of a rectangle

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To calculate the area of a triangle we can half the area of a triangle

The area of a triangle = 1 ⁄ 2 × base × height

Example 2: Here is a triangle drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the area of the triangle.

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Area = 1 ⁄ 2 × base × height Area = 1 ⁄ 2 × 4 × 6 Area = 2 × 6 Area = 12cm 2

Example 3: Calculate the area of the triangle.

area and perimeter problem solving ks2

For the area calculation we use the perpendicular height (it must be straight up, not diagonal). The height of this triangle is 12 metres.

Area = 1 ⁄ 2 × base × height Area = 1 ⁄ 2 × 8 × 12 Area = 4 × 12 Area = 48m 2

A triangle is drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the area of the triangle.

Calculate the area of the triangle.

Finding the area of a parallelogram

A parallelogram is a quadrilateral with two sets of parallel sides.

A parallelogram can be made into a rectangle by cutting off and moving a triangle:

The area of a parallelogram = base × height

Example 4: Here is a parallelogram drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the area of the parallelogram.

area and perimeter problem solving ks2

Area = base × height Area = 4 × 3 Area = 12cm 2

Example 5: Calculate the area of the parallelogram.

area and perimeter problem solving ks2

For the area calculation we use the perpendicular height (it must be straight up, not diagonal). The height of this parallelogram is 11 metres.

Area = base × height Area = 8 × 11 Area = 88m 2

A parallelogram is drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the area of the parallelogram.

Calculate the area of the parallelogram.

Finding the area of a trapezium

The image below shows a trapezium, a trapezium (trapezoid in American English) is a quadrilateral with two parallel sides.

area and perimeter problem solving ks2

The area of a trapezium = 1 ⁄ 2 (a + b) × height Where a and b are the lengths of the two parallel sides

This formula can be made by splitting the trapezium into a rectangle and a triangle (you don't have to know where the formula comes from, you just have to know the formula).

Example 6: Find the area of the trapezium

For the trapezium above: Area = 1 ⁄ 2 (6 + 10) × 7 Area = 1 ⁄ 2 (16) × 7 Area = 8 × 7 Area = 56 cm 2

A trapezium is drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the area of the trapezium.

Calculate the area of the trapezium.

The perimeter of a shape is the distance around the edge of the shape

To find the perimeter of a shape we add up the lengths of all of the sides

This rectangle has two sides with a length of 6cm and two sides with a length of 3cm

Perimeter = 6 + 6 + 3 + 3

Perimeter = 18 cm

Example 1: A rectangle is drawn on a centimetre grid Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle

Perimeter = 5 + 5 + 4 + 4 Perimeter = 18cm

Example 2: Calculate the perimeter of the triangle

area and perimeter problem solving ks2

Perimeter = 10 + 9 + 7 Perimeter = 26m

A rectangle is drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle.

Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle.

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Year 5 Finding Unknown Lengths IWB Perimeter and Area Activity

Extra Step 2: This Year 5 Finding Unknown Lengths IWB activity checks pupils' understanding of measuring and finding perimeter to find unknown lengths of a shape.

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These Area worksheets are fantastic at helping your pupils practice their reasoning and problem solving skills. This pack contains two different question types for Year 4 Spring Block 2.

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These Length and Perimeter worksheets are fantastic at helping your pupils practice their reasoning and problem solving skills. This pack contains two different question types for Year 3 Spring Block 4.

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Free Year 5 Measure Perimeter Lesson Slides

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Measure Perimeter Year 5

Free Measure Perimeter Year 5 Perimeter and Area Learning Video Clip

Step 1: Alfie, his Auntie Sharon and Uncle Paul are moving to a new house. They need help measuring and finding the perimeter of a letterbox and house number using whole and half centimetres. The family also need to decide on the design of a new tiled bathroom wall using different tiles to meet the perimeter requirements.

Shapes Same Area Homework

Free Shapes Same Area Homework Extension Year 6 Perimeter, Area and Volume

Step 1: Free Shapes Same Area Homework provides additional questions which can be used as homework or an in-class extension for the Year 6 Metric Measures Resource Pack and are differentiated three ways.

Year 6 Shapes Same Area IWB

Free Year 6 Shapes Same Area IWB Perimeter, Area and Volume Activity

Step 1: This Year 6 Shapes Same Area IWB Activity includes three questions designed to check pupils' ability to identify shapes with the same area.

What is Area? Homework

Free What is Area? Homework Extension Year 4 Area

Step 1: What is Area? Homework extension provides additional questions which can be used as homework or an in-class extension for the Free What is Area? Resource Pack.

Free Kilometres Homework

Free Kilometres Homework Extension Year 4 Length and Perimeter

Step 1: Free Kilometres Homework extension provides additional questions which can be used as homework or an in-class extension for the Free Kilometres Resource Pack and are differentiated three ways.

Year 4 What is Area? IWB

Free Year 4 What is Area? IWB Area Activity

Step 1: This Year 4 What is Area? IWB Activity includes three questions designed to consolidate pupils' understanding of area and establishing area by using squares.

Free Year 4 Kilometres IWB

Free Year 4 Kilometres IWB Length and Perimeter Activity

Step 1: This Free Year 4 Kilometres IWB Activity includes three questions designed to check pupils' understanding of converting between metres and kilometres.

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Reasoning - Problem Solving - Perimeter Problems (KS2) - March 2nd

Reasoning - Problem Solving - Perimeter Problems (KS2) - March 2nd

Subject: Mathematics

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

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  1. Area and Perimeter KS2

    Area and Perimeter. Age 7 to 11. Challenge Level. What can you say about these shapes? This problem challenges you to create shapes with different areas and perimeters.

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    Practical area and perimeter lesson ideas for Year 5. In Year 5 it is important to introduce a more problem solving approach to area and perimeter questions. This is in order to encourage flexibility of thinking for those students who still think of perimeter and area as only being easy to find and estimate if it is a regular shape.

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    Area = 18 cm2. The units are cm 2: one cm 2 is a square that measures 1cm by 1 cm. Example 1: A rectangle is drawn on a centimetre grid. Calculate the area of the rectangle. Area = length × width. Area = 5 × 4. Area = 20cm2. Try this: A rectangle is drawn on a centimetre grid.

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  18. PDF Area & Perimeter KS2 SATS Standard Worksheet

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  19. PDF Maths KS2 LESSON PLAN Using real-life problems to learn perimeter

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