Measuring Perimeters
Your child can measure the distance around a shape. For a picture frame 20 cm by 30 cm, they add the sides to get 100 cm.
In curriculum terms
Measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child wants to put a decorative border around a rectangular picture frame 20 cm wide and 30 cm tall, can they work out the total length of border needed?
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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
measure the length of shapes and objects using informal units, recognising that units need to be uniform and used end-to-end
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.