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The activities linked to these SAT Maths topics are existing Transum resources, not exercises specifically designed for the SAT examination. They use British English and may include questions or difficulty levels beyond and adjacent to those required for the SAT.

• Area and Perimeter of a Rectangle Questions on the areas and perimeters of rectangles which will test your problem solving abilities.
• Area Builder An interactive workspace in which to make shapes using square tiles with given areas and perimeters.
• Area and Perimeter of a Parallelogram Many different ways to practise your skills finding the areas and perimeters of parallelograms.
• Area And Perimeter Video Calculate and solve problems involving perimeter and area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, kites and composite shapes.
• Area and Perimeter of a Kite A short exercise to practise using the formulae for area and perimeter of a kite.
• Area of a Trapezium Check that you can find the area of a trapezium and use the trapezium area formula for problem solving.
• Area and Perimeter Name the shapes then find formulas to calculate the area and perimeters from the given lengths.
• Area Maze Use your knowledge of rectangle areas to calculate the missing measurement of these composite diagrams.
• Area Two How many different shapes with an area of 2 square units can you make by joining dots on this grid with straight lines?
• Squareas Square areas - some are shown and others can be deduced to find the unknown
• Quad Areas Calculate the areas of all the possible quadrilaterals that can be constructed by joining together dots on this grid.
• Volume Video There are simple formulas that can be used to find the volumes of basic three-dimensional shapes.
• Volume Use formulae to solve problems involving the volumes of cuboids, cones, pyramids, prisms and composite solids.
• Circles Area and Circumference Video The circumference and area of a circle can be found if the radius or diameter are known.
• Circles Practise using pi to calculate various circle measurements. There are six levels of difficulty.
• Pi Some information about Pi, the "celebrity number'. A video features maths-loving author Alex Bellos.
• Areas of Composite Shapes Find the areas of combined (composite) shapes made up of one or more simple polygons and circles.
• Formulae Pairs Find the matching pairs of diagrams and formulae for basic geometrical shapes.
• Heron's Formula Use the lengths of the three sides of a triangle to calculate the area.
• Cylinders Apply formulae for the volumes and surface areas of cylinders to answer a wide variety of questions
• Surface Area Video Finding the surface are of three dimensional shapes can involve some interesting formulae.
• Surface Area Work out the surface areas of common solid shapes in this collection of exercises.
• Pi and Four Fingers Why is The Simpsons not in Base 8? In this video Simon Singh talks about Pi and Maths in The Simpsons cartoon.

Here are some exam-style questions (not SAT questions) on this topic:

• "A bricklayer estimates the number of bricks he will need to build a wall by dividing the area of the wall by the area of the face of a brick." ... more
• "The diagram shows a water tank in the shape of a cylinder. It has a diameter of 76cm anf a height of 36cm." ... more
• "An ornamental lake is in the shape of a semicircle with a diameter of 900 metres." ... more
• "Babatunde has to paint four containers." ... more
• "The diagram shows a red square placed on top of a grey square." ... more
• "The trapezium and rectangle shown here have the same perimeters. The diagrams are not drawn to scale and the measurements are in centimetres. Calculate the area of the trapezium." ... more
• "The diagram below shows two rectangles not drawn to scale." ... more
• "A container is in the shape of a cuboid as shown in the diagram below." ... more
• "Find the value of \(x\)." ... more
• "The illustration shows a greenhouse in the shape of a pentagonal prism. The front of the greenhouse is a pentagon with a single line of symmetry. The sides of the greenhouse are vertical." ... more
• "Triangle JKL is the cross-section of a prism of length 25cm." ... more
• "Walter Wall is planning to renovate a remote building by installing new flooring. A diagram showing the area required to be covered by the flooring can be seen below." ... more
• "A red square has sides of length \(x\) cm. A blue rectangle has sides of length \(3x-1\) cm and \(x-2\) cm. The diagrams below are not drawn to scale." ... more
• "Find the length of the sides of a square from the following clues:" ... more
• "A square has sides of length \(x\) cm." ... more
• "Five identical circles fit exactly inside a rectangle as shown in the diagram." ... more
• "Two identical small yellow circles are drawn inside one large circle, as shown in the diagram. The centres of the small circles lie on the diameter of the large circle. The part of the large circle that is outside both small circles is painted red." ... more
• "The diagram shows a water tank in the shape of a trapezoidal prism." ... more
• "A wedge is to be cut from a log in the shape of a cylinder as shown in the diagram below (not to scale)." ... more

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