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Focus

• describe perimeter
• compare perimeters of shapes on square grids
• use multiplication to calculate perimeters of regular shapes
• calculate lengths of sides of regular shapes from their perimeters
• solve problems involving perimeters of regular and irregular shapes
• add length and width, then double the answer to calculate perimeters of rectangles