Calculating Compound Shapes

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

With this Year 6 Maths five-lesson planning pack, take an in-depth look at a number of strategies for working out the area and perimeter of shapes – and calculating the volume of cuboids, too. Through the slides and activities, children are shown how to apply these strategies when calculating the areas, perimeters and volumes of increasingly complex compound shapes, and given plenty of opportunities to practise! To round of the week’s learning, the fifth lesson in this Complete Series challenges children to order volumes given using a range of different units of measurement.

#Lesson1AreaandPerimeter

Challenge children to find the area and perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shapes in this Year 6 Maths lesson. Includes area and perimeter worksheets.

This is the first of five lessons in the 'Calculating Compound Shapes' Complete Series. In it, children are challenged to explore the various ways in which rectilinear shapes of a given area may be configured in different ways which alter the perimeter. Additionally, they will consider the ways in which shapes of different dimensions and areas may have the same perimeter.

There is a choice of differentiated area and perimeter activities, where children can continue to explore ways of finding the area and perimeter of rectangles—including squares—and rectilinear shapes using the worksheets, activity cards and area and perimeter questions included.

#Lesson2CompoundShapeArea

Find the area of compound shapes and calculate missing leng