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This fortnights focus will be calculating the area of various shapes using the formulas provided.
Area of basic shapes
Area of basic shapes
Last fortnight (Week 10 Term 2), you were exposed to the definitions of perimeter and area.
Remember Perimeter = PLUS where you add all the sides together, area is where we find the amount of space inside the shape.
To calculate the area of various basic shapes, we use the formulas above.
NOTE that the DOT is actually a MULTIPLICATION sign as when we are finding area we are multiplying different measurements to find the space inside the shape.
composite shapes
composite shapes
When calculating the area of composite shapes, you need to ensure you are breaking up the shapes into smaller ones, working out the area of each of them, then adding them together.
AREA IS ALWAYS WRITTEN AS SQUARED (WITH THE UNIT)
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