Perimeter Year 4 Maths Unit

Build confident perimeter understanding through explicit teaching, visual references, games, design tasks and sequenced problem solving. This Year 4 unit helps students understand perimeter as the distance around a shape, choose suitable measurement tools and units, calculate missing lengths, interpret not-to-scale diagrams and apply perimeter to practical situations.

The editable presentation introduces key vocabulary, tools, units and calculation strategies. The editable quiz provides 10 interleaved question-and-answer pairs. Printable resources include a classroom display, student reference, two game resources, an open-ended robot activity, eight worksheets and recording pages with answers, a two-page assessment with answers and a five-level rubric.

Teachers can use the complete sequence across one to two weeks or select individual resources for warm-ups, guided groups, maths rotations, homework, revision and assessment.

What's Included

• Editable 17-slide presentation: Perimeter – Year 4
• Editable 22-slide quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• Classroom display: Perimeter Quick Guide
• Student reference: Measuring Perimeter
• Game: Perimeter Park Enclosures
• Game: Perimeter Park Challenge Cards
• Activity: My Robot Design Grid
• Eight perimeter worksheets and recording pages, each with answers
• Two-page assessment: Perimeter Check-Up, with matching answer pages
• Five-level rubric: Perimeter – Year 4 Rubric
• 27-page printable unit-plan PDF

Learning Focus

• Understand perimeter as the distance around the outside edge of a shape
• Measure and calculate perimeter using suitable units
• Use shortcuts for rectangles and regular shapes
• Calculate perimeter of irregular and grid-based shapes
• Interpret not-to-scale diagrams and missing dimensions
• Solve practical fencing, map and word problems
• Explain perimeter strategies and check calculations

Classroom Use

Use for whole-class instruction, guided groups, maths rotations, independent practice, homework, intervention, extension, revision or assessment. Matching answer pages support efficient review and marking.

File Details

• PDF and editable PPTX files
• 27-page printable unit plan
• 17-slide editable presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz, including answer slides
• Matching answers for all eight worksheets/recording pages and both assessment pages

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital product; no physical item is shipped. Purchase permits use by the purchasing teacher in their own classroom in accordance with Sukindi's licence terms. Redistribution, resale, public sharing and commercial reproduction are not permitted.