Perimeter....continued

We began looking at perimeter last week, adding up the lengths of sides of a sports card, then creating figures on 1cm grid paper and totalling the measures of all the sides.  I showed the class a couple of irregular figures and we reviewed how to count the sides of those.  This week we will just concentrate on regular figures (squares, rectangles, triangles, hexagons, etc.) to make sure students understand the concept of perimeter with those.  Last week when a substitute was in for me one day I asked her to give students different perimeters and students had to create figures with those perimeters.  That was a challenge for some, so we will review this and do more for practice.

If there is time this week I will introduce the metre as a unit of measure and relate it to the centimetre rulers students are already familiar with.

I am planning to give the class a short quiz on Wednesday.  This quiz is one supplied by the Province in preparation for the Provincial Assessment in June.  The results will give me an indication about where to focus review before the assessment.

Questions to share with your child....which operation would you use to solve each problem? Addition?  Subtraction?  Multiplication?  Division?  Read them carefully.  Students should sketch out what's happening in the problem to help them.


The school purchased 5 pizzas that had been cut into 10 slices each.  Do they have enough to give one slice to each of 65 students who ordered pizza?


A stack of 50 hockey cards was divided among 5 friends.  How many cards did each friend receive?

Mrs. Delgado found 37 Easter eggs on the weekend.  Ms. Driscoll only found 2.  How many more did Mrs. Delgado find?

On Earth Day neighbours picked up garbage on their street.  One family collected enough garbage to fill 14 bags and two other families got together and filled 59 bags.  How many bags of garbage will need to be picked up by the garbage truck?


Have a great week everyone!