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Prerequisites
- Students will need to understand the definition of polygon, which may have been covered in lessons G1a, G1f, and G3c.
- Students need to be comfortable with addition and multiplication from lesson N2a.
Perimeter of polygons
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Teacher resources
Links to past exam questions
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Perimeter and arithmetic skills exercise: adding integers, decimals, surds and collecting like terms
In the real world
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What next?
- G17b – Circumference of a circle
- G17d – Perimeter and area of composite shapes made up of polygons
- G17e – Perimeter and area of composite shapes made up of polygons and sectors of circles
- G20a – Pythagoras’ theorem
- Pythagoras and surds assorted problems – requiring knowledge of G20a, N8b, G17a, and G16c