I have been playing around with some ideas and questions on Area and Perimeter. I was looking at the changes to the perimeter when I doubled the length of one side and then looked at how it affected the area when a rectangle was enlarged. There is quite a difference in the difficulty of each question. Whilst I was looking at some of these ideas in Geogebra I thought about the idea of moving one vertex of a triangle, whilst maintaining the same area and what the possibilities were. I thought it might make an interesting question when looking at the area of a triangle. I usually start looking at the area of a triangle by using a prompt like the one below. I find it fascinating that moving one vertex of a triangle along the line parallel to the line joining the other two vertices always results in the same area.
Area and Perimeter of shape problems
Perimeter and Area of Irregular Shapes



