Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Building a Garden Fence
In this activity, students can use basic concepts of perimeter and area to investigate a classic problem situation requiring maximization. They must decide how to build a garden fence to enclose the largest possible area.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: How Totally Square Part Ii
Students understand the concept of perimeter of a square, and discover its formula.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Rectangle Problems
The geometry tutorial investigates rectangles. Topics included are diagonals, area, and perimeter. The activity has several examples with detailed solutions.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Igd: Area of a Parallelogram
Use this interactive tool to learn how to find the area of a parallelogram. Click on "Instructions" for details on how to use this tool. Click on "Explore" for more ideas.
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Applications of Functions
Learners examine applications of functions. Topics explored are length of a chord, volume, area, and perimeter. The activity includes examples with detailed solutions.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Perimeter of a Trapezoid
Learn about the perimeter of a trapezoid with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Perimeter of a Triangle
Learn about the perimeter of a triangle with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, an example, and an internet activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Area of a Rectangle
Learn about the area of a rectangle with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition and interactive activities that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Multiple Ways to Solve a Problem
This Marilyn Burns lesson plan employs children's literature to teach the topics of combinations, perimeter, and area using a problem solving approach. Primary and intermediate levels have an activity appropriate to each.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vid: Scaling Up Rectangles
Watch a student think through a problem about how the area of a rectangle changes when both sides are increased by the same scale factor and use online tools to demonstrate understanding of concepts related to area and scale factors in...
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
Cnice: Relacion De Ejercicios Interactivos.
In Spanish. Interactive activities online on various geometric and trigonometric concepts such as area, perimeter, secants, tangents, etc. A terrific resource for students. Site is organized acoording to shape. (triangle, quadrilaterals,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Move Along Little Vertex
In this activity, students use the Geoboard to determine the area of triangles having the same base and same height.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Building a Better Pet Run
This activity is designed to make students realize that area of a rectangle changes for different widths.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Triangle Explorer
Students explore the nature of triangles and their area. An applet and instructor resources are included. [Requires Java.]
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Shape Explorer: Area and Perimeter
An applet activity that provides an exercise in working with perimeter and area of 2D objects. The user is given a random figure and allowed to enter a value for the area and perimeter. Use the "How" and the "Why" button to assist you....
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Windshield Wipers
Test your mathematical aptitude with challenge exploring the concepts of measurement and geometry. Find the area of the windshield wipers to figure out who sees better in the rain, car drivers or truck drivers. An activity from the NCTM...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Keeping Cool
Is it better to by block ice or crushed ice? Use your logical reasoning and measurement skills to solve this challenge that compares surface area of block ice and the same block cut into three cubes. A one page activity from the NCTM...
Other
Mathpower: Math Fundamental Assignments
Math variety of concepts, this colorful website is sure to give your students the chance show what they know. Concepts covered include rounding, division with decimals, order of operations, ratio, percent, multiplication, and division of...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mapping a Leaf
In this activity, students will identify and record ordered pairs from a coordinate plane. They will examine symmetry about the axes, reflections, and symmetry in nature. They understand geometric concepts like area and perimeter, and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Finding Patterns and Graphing Functions
This activity has students find patterns in the areas and perimeters of a given series of figures. Students' then use graphing calculators to graph the values and to find linear and quadratic functions to describe the patterns.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Geoboard App
Students use the Geoboard App to measure arcs, line segments, area, and perimeter, as well as rotate, reflect, and translate objects.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: What Goes Around Comes Around but Can You Measure It?
In this activity, students find the area and the perimeter for several geometric shapes. They also determine the surface area and volume of spheres.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Los Cuadrilateros
In Spanish. Interactive resources and activities that could be used in the classroom either as an introduction or review to a unit dealing with area and perimeter of quadrilaterals.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Triangles
A complete reference guide to types of triangles and triangle perimeter and area. It provides definitions and interactive animated activities that enhance further explanation.