Perimeter, Area and Volume - Area and Perimeter - Planning

The Year 6 maths curriculum for Spring delves into the concepts of Perimeter, Area, and Volume, with the first week focusing on area and perimeter. Students are provided with resources such as worksheets and a presentation to facilitate their learning. The key vocabulary for this section includes terms like shape, rectilinear shapes, area, side lengths, factors, perimeter, and formula. The lesson starts with a recap on the difference between area and perimeter, emphasizing that area is the space inside a shape measured in square units, while perimeter is the total length of all sides of a shape. Students are then presented with a series of rectangles and rectilinear shapes to investigate and compare their areas and perimeters. This activity helps students to understand that shapes with the same area can have different perimeters and vice versa.

In the second activity, students are challenged to find missing side lengths of rectangles when the area is known, using the formula for area (Area = Length × Width) and applying inverse operations. They practice this skill with rectangles that have missing side lengths and areas, some of which require conversion between different units of measurement, such as millimetres to centimetres. The third activity involves creating rectilinear shapes with an area of 48 cm² but different perimeters, using factor pairs to determine possible side lengths. The lesson aims to deepen understanding of how area and perimeter relate to each other and includes group work to explore these concepts further. Students are encouraged to reflect on what they've learned and the skills they've used, such as multiplication and addition, and to remember the key points from the lesson. Differentiated tasks cater to varying levels of ability, from those working towards fluency to those achieving greater depth.