Area (age 8+)
Your child can find the area of a shape by counting the squares that cover it. They can work in square centimetres or square metres.
In curriculum terms
Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft)
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child draws a shape on squared centimetre paper, can they find its area by counting the squares — including making a sensible estimate for any partial squares?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise ways of measuring and approximating the perimeter and area of shapes and enclosed spaces, using appropriate formal and informal units
solve practical problems involving the perimeter and area of regular and irregular shapes using appropriate metric units
identify common uses and represent halves, quarters and eighths in relation to shapes, objects and events
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.