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title: "Exploring Area and Perimeter"
url: "https://www.stmarysjarrow.co.uk/news/2025-02-05-exploring-area-and-perimeter"
school: "St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, Jarrow"
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# Exploring Area and Perimeter

   5 February 2025

In Year 6, the children have been using Numicon to help them understand how to find the area and perimeter of compound shapes. We started by finding the missing sides using part-part-whole models and then separated the shapes to create two quadrilaterals we could calculate the area of.

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