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Primary 3 Math: Area & Perimeter Practice
Real Primary 3 Math questions on Area & Perimeter, pulled directly from the Olibits question bank — the same questions a child would actually see, not separately written for this page.
MOE strand: Measurement and Geometry
Curriculum alignment
Mathematics Syllabus, Primary One to Six (MOE, 2021 syllabus)
Taught across P1–P6.
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Real Area & Perimeter practice questions
What does 'perimeter' measure?
The distance around a shape ✓
The space inside a shape
The weight of a shape
The height of a shape
Perimeter is the total distance all the way around the outside of a shape.
What does 'area' measure?
The space covered inside a shape ✓
The distance around a shape
The weight of a shape
The number of corners
Area is the amount of flat space a shape covers.
A shape is made of unit squares. If it has 5 unit squares, what is its area?
25 square units
5 square units ✓
10 square units
5 units
The area is simply the number of unit squares that make up the shape: 5 square units.
If a rectangle's length increases but its width stays the same, what happens to its perimeter?
It decreases
Cannot tell
It stays the same
It increases ✓
Perimeter = 2 × (length + width), so a bigger length makes the perimeter bigger.