Area and perimeter
Area measures the space inside a two-dimensional shape, while perimeter measures the total distance around its outside edge. These skills involve choosing the correct method, working accurately with measurements and recognising the properties of different shapes.
Explore our area and perimeter worksheets, guides and interactive resources to practise rectangles, triangles, compound shapes and a range of GCSE maths problems.
- Area and perimeter of rectangles and squares
- Perimeter of rectangles with mixed metric units e.g. cm and mm
- Perimeter of compound rectangles
- Area of a triangle
- Area of a trapezium
- Circumference of a circle (decimal answers)
- Circumference in terms of pi
- Perimeter of a sector
- Area of a circle
- Area of a sector
- Compound area