Pentagon Perimeters

Can your students differentiate between a pentagon and a hexagon or circle? Can they explain what makes these shapes unique?

It’s time to practise finding perimeter! Use this geometry exercise with your students to give them practise calculating the perimeter of various trapezoids. Students will use addition to add up the lengths of the four sides of trapezoids.

Get back to basics with this handy geometry resource! Challenge your child to determine the perimeter—or distance around a shape—of a variety of polygons. They'll be perimeter pros in no time!

...Pentagon Perimeters worksheet (one per partnership) Class set of the Trapezoid Perimeters worksheet Youtube Video: Intro to Perimeter for Kids: How to Find the Perimeter...

This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for *Polygon Perimeters with Tantalizing Tangrams!*

How is it different from a hexagon or a pentagon? Use this resource with your students to practise identifying the characteristics of a trapezoid and comparing them to other 2-D shapes.

...Pentagon to her house....

Make real world connections with your students when it comes to perimeter. Use this geometry lesson with your students to discuss real contexts and teach them how to calculate perimeter.