4.MD.5.a Area and perimeter of rectangles Worksheet (Set A) — Grade 4

About this worksheet

Common Core standard 4.MD.5.a: An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a "one-degree angle," and can be used to measure angles.

This printable practice page focuses on Area and perimeter of rectangles, a core skill in the Grade 4 Measurement & Data strand. It is laid out in a clean single-column format that prints on a standard letter-size sheet. Use it as a do-now, an in-class practice page, an exit ticket, or take-home homework. For more on this skill, see our classroom guide to teaching Area and perimeter of rectangles.

Worked Example

Find the area of a rectangle with length 8 ft and width 5 ft.

Solution. Area = length × width = 8 × 5 = 40 square feet.

Answer: 40 sq ft

Practice Problems — 4.MD.5.a

Name: ______________________ Date: __________

Find the area of a rectangle with length 10 ft and width 7 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the perimeter of a rectangle with length 7 ft and width 16 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the area of a rectangle with length 3 ft and width 12 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the perimeter of a rectangle with length 8 ft and width 6 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the area of a rectangle with length 3 ft and width 4 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the perimeter of a rectangle with length 7 ft and width 8 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the area of a rectangle with length 4 ft and width 18 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the perimeter of a rectangle with length 17 ft and width 5 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the area of a rectangle with length 6 ft and width 14 ft. Answer: ____________
Find the perimeter of a rectangle with length 14 ft and width 18 ft. Answer: ____________

Answer Key

70 sq ft
46 ft
36 sq ft
28 ft
12 sq ft
30 ft
72 sq ft
44 ft
84 sq ft
64 ft

How to use this in class

Print one copy per student on standard letter-size paper. The page is sized so a student can complete it in roughly 17 minutes of focused work. If you are pacing a 45-minute math block, this page works well as a do-now while you take attendance, as guided practice after a 10-minute mini-lesson, or as an end-of-class exit ticket. For small-group instruction, project the page on your board, work the first item together as a think-aloud, then have students complete two more independently while you confer. Pair this page with a concrete-pictorial-abstract progression when introducing the skill for the first time.

How to use this at home

Sit beside your child rather than across from them. Read the standard description above out loud once before they start. Resist the urge to correct as they go — let them finish the page, then circle two or three items you want to revisit together. Most parents find that one printable a day, three or four days a week, is enough to keep a child fluent without making math feel like a chore.

Standards alignment & what comes next

This page is aligned to Common Core standard 4.MD.5.a in the Measurement & Data strand for Grade 4. The skill connects upward to later-grade work in the same strand and downward to the prerequisites students should have already mastered. If your district uses a different framework, the standard text above will help you map this page into your scope-and-sequence document. For deeper background on the standard's progression, see the Common Core Math Standards progression document.

Teacher / Parent Note

The questions here are randomly seeded from a deterministic generator, so each standard's worksheet is unique but reproducible. If you reload the page you will see the same problem set — perfect for printing the same copy for an absent student a week later. Difficulty: Practice.