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Lesson Account: A lesson about clarifying the concepts of area and perimeter.

Subject: Mathematics.
Age of students: 9-10 years.
Hardware: Tablets and Interactive Whiteboard.
Software: NearPod (student response system).
Functionalities of Technology: Sending and Displaying.
Time needed: 1 hour.
FaSMEd Partner: The University of Nottingham.

Summary
The lesson focussed on clarifying the concepts of area and perimeter before students carried out an investigation to explore connections between area and perimeter for simple and compound shapes.

Resources

Formative assessment in Science and
Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)
The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK

Email: fasmed@ncl.ac.uk