Australian Math in Nature: Area & Perimeter

Surprise yourself by delighting in math with this desert inspired guide that explores arrays while investigating Indigenous Gunyah camps and area at Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre. Define perimeter at the Dingo Fence and compare Australia’s largest cattle stations. Did you know that one cattle station in the Outback is larger than the country of Israel? Learn new math symbols like the square root and how it’s applied to area.

Examine Indigenous art symbols and create a geometrical piece of art. Investigate the surface area of polygons while examining the geometric shapes of crystals. Design a desert zoo on grid paper then create a zoo outdoors. Glance at unit conversion and prefixes in measurement words. Once this unit is complete, sit the children down with their last activity, then make yourself a cuppa and ponder on mathematical thinking with an inspiring video just for you.

Come along! We dare you to love math!

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