Year 5 · Spring term · Perimeter and area · Step 3
Year 5 Perimeter of polygons worksheets
Find the perimeter of polygons, regular polygons and joined shapes. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
Download the worksheets
Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- Work out the perimeter of the triangle.Perimeter = ____ cm.
Show the answer
27
- This is a regular pentagon. All its sides are the same length. Work out the perimeter.Perimeter = ____ cm.
Show the answer
45
- Three regular polygons each have a perimeter of 60 cm. Work out the length of one side of each.a) a square: ____ cm.b) an equilateral triangle: ____ cm.c) a regular hexagon: ____ cm.
Show the answer
15; 20; 10
- A tennis court is 21 m long and 12 m wide. A football pitch is 92 m long and 59 m wide.Jo walks round the edge of the tennis court 4 times. Zach walks round the edge of the football pitch once.Who walks further? ____How much further? ____ m.
Show the answer
Zach; 38
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.