Lesson Four – Letter Areas
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to measure and record the shape of different letters of the alphabet by counting their matching number of squares to find their measured areas.
The class can select and illustrate a range of different shapes that can match each of the identified areas for each letter of the alphabet.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to measure and record the shape of different letters of the alphabet by counting their matching number of squares to find their measured areas
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to measure and record the shape of different letters of the alphabet by identifying and counting their matching number of squares and listing other objects to match each measured area.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record the shape of different letters of the alphabet by counting their matching number of squares.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify, record and compare the surface areas of a range of different rectilinear and irregular shapes by counting their matching numbers of squares. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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