Friday 26th January

In today’s maths lesson we were working with multilink cubes, Numicon and Base 10 in order to help us understand area and perimeter. First of all we spoke about what the terms ‘area’ and ‘perimeter’ actually mean and how we measure them. We decided that the perimeter of a shape is the distance around the outside and a shapes area is the total amount of space the shape covers. Then we split into 3 groups, with one group sitting near and using the Numicon, another group using the Base 10 and the final group using the multilink cubes. Below are the questions we had to answer using our resources to help us: