Area, perimeter, position and direction
Unit 6 – 2 weeks
Primary
KS2
Year 6
Curriculum
The PowerPoint file contains slides you can use in the classroom to support each of the learning outcomes for this unit, listed below.
The slides are comprehensively linked to associated pedagogical guidance in the NCETM Primary Mastery Professional Development materials. There are also links to the ready-to-progress criteria detailed in the DfE Primary Mathematics Guidance 2020.
Learning outcomes
| 1 | Pupils explain how to calculate the area of a parallelogram |
| 2 | Pupils explain how to calculate the area of a triangle |
| 3 | Pupils explain why shapes can have the same perimeters but different areas |
| 4 | Pupils explain why shapes can have the same areas but different perimeters |
| 5 | Pupils describe the relationship between scale factors and side lengths of two shapes |
| 6 | Pupils describe the relationship between scale factors and perimeters of two shapes |
| 7 | Pupils describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all four quadrants) |
| 8 | Pupils draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane and reflect them in the axes |