It's important for children to gain deep understandings of how we use the maths we explore in our classrooms to real life situations. If children don't understand the relevance, their engagement and curiosity diminishes. To help us find out how we measure area and perimeter in real life, we began by measuring them on this fictional house floor plan. We discussed the ratio key and techniques used in the drawing as an example: For home learning, we then created floor plans of our own...
