Area Formulas
VOCABULARY
Area of Parallelograms
Area of Other Shapes
Area of Compound Shapes
100
What is the area formula for a rectangle?
A = l x w
100
What is the distance around the outside of a shape called?
PERIMETER is the distance around a shape.
100
Find the area of the following parallelogram
What is 72 cm squared?
100
What is the area of the triangle with a base of 5 and a height of 8?
20 square units
100
Find the area of the figure below.
What is 135 cm2
200
What is the area formula for a parallelogram?
What is A = b x h
200
What is the amount of space inside a 2D shape called?
AREA is the amount of space inside a 2D shape.
200
Find the area of the following parallelogram.
What is 63 cm2
200
What is the area of the rectangle?
24 cm2
200
Find the area of the sidewalk around the pool.
What is 68 units2
300
What is the area formula for a triangle?
A = b x h รท 2
300
What type of units is area measured in?
SQUARE UNITS are used to measure area.
300
Assume the dimensions of the parallelogram below are actually in centimetres. What is the area ?
What is 135 centimetres squared
300
What is the area of the rectangle?
36 cm2
300
Find the area of the shape below.
What is 84 cm2
400
What are the 2 dimensions used to find area?
length and width
400
What is the space inside a 3D shape called?
VOLUME is the space inside a 3D shape.
400
An interior designer is tiling a bathroom using tiles shaped like a parallelogram. The base of one tile is 10 centimetres and the height is 5 centimetres. What is the area of one tile.
What is 50 centimetres squared?
400
What is the area of a triangle with a base of 6 cm, a slant height of 12cm and a perpendicular height of 10 cm?
30 cm2
400
Find the area of the shaded region below. Use metres instead of feet
93 metres squared
500
What is area?
What is the space occupied by a flat shape (2D) or the surface of an object.
500
What is the distance around a circle called?
CIRCUMFERENCE is the distance around a circle
500
The area of a parallelogram is 60 cm2. If the height is 12 cm then what is the base?
What is 5 cm?
500
What is the formula for the area of a circle ?
What is Pi times r squared (radius)
500
What is the strategy of breaking an irregular shape into familiar shapes called?
Deconstructing or decomposing