Home Cut Out Shapes Geometric Shapes Square & Rectangle Cut Out. Product categories. 1-3/8″ x 3/16″ Wood Rectangle Cut Out $ 2.50 – $ 32.50 Item #JC7518. These are lovely and almost perfect for my Year 3 children to review describing features of 2D shapes. It would be very useful if you also had a set of large IRREGULAR shapes to cut out and include in the activity, particularly pentagons, hexagons, heptagons and octagons as my class struggle to identify irregular shapes still.
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What is area?
Area tells us the size of a shape or figure. It tells us the size of squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, other polygons, or any enclosed figure.
In the real world it tells us the size of pieces of paper, computer screens, rooms in houses, baseball fields, towns, cities, countries, and so on. Knowing the area can be very important. Think of getting a new carpet fitted in a room in your home. Knowing the area of the room will help make sure that the carpet you buy is big enough without having too much left over.
Calculating Area
Area is measured in squares (or square units).
How many squares are in this rectangle?
We can count the squares or we can take the length and width and use multiplication. The rectangle above has an area of 15 square units.
The area of a rectangle is = length x width
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Units for measuring area
We measure area using squares. We use different sizes of squares depending on how big or small an area is.
We could use small squares to measure large areas. The only problem with this is that we would end up having to use very big numbers. For example, a field might be measured at 5,000,000,000 square millimeters when 5,000 square meters would be a much easier size to say, write, and visualize.
You will probably hear more units for measuring area; square inches, square feet, square yards, square miles, acres, hectares are all units used for measuring area.
More Examples of Calculating Area
Area of a Square
The length and width of a square are the same so we just need to multiply the length by the length.
Area of a Circle
The area of a circle = πr2 where r is the radius of the circle and π is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
π (pronounced 'pie' and often written 'Pi') is an infinite decimal with a common approximation of 3.14159. You can find out more about Pi here
Example of calculating the area of a circle
Explanation of the Area of a Circle Formula
Take a circle and divide it into equally sized sectors and rearrange these as shown below. Notice how, as the sectors become smaller, the shape becomes more like a rectangle. Note: There is no limit to how small these sectors could be and to how closely they could resemble a rectangle when arranged.
Assuming we know that the circumference of a circle is equal to 2πr we can add dimensions to the 'rectangle' as shown below. Using the area of a rectangle area formula, area = width x height we can see how our circle, re-configured as a rectangle, can be shown to have an area that approximates to πr x r or πr2
Circle Sectors Rearranged
Circle Sectors Rearranged - Starting to Look Like a Rectangle
Area of Compound Shapes
There are many cases where the calculation of a total area requires more than one area to be calculated followed by either an addition, subtraction, or some other combination of operations to find the required area.
Note: In the examples below the units of measurement are not shown and answers and the value of π (Pi) have been rounded to the nearest hundredth.
Example: Simple Compound Shapes
The area calculation example below is relatively simple. The shape can be seen as a triangle combined with a rectangle.
The example above illustrates a common requirement when working with compound shapes - finding dimensions that are not shown. When tutoring your children, give help, when needed, to find these 'missing' dimensions. There is another example below.
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Finding the dimensions
Example: Subtracting one area from another
In the example below, the shape can be seen as a rectangle with a triangle cut out.
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Example: Partial areas
The example below is similar to one above although, since we have a semi-circle we need to calculate a fraction (one-half) of the circle's area. Note in this example the diameter, and not the radius is shown.
Example: Decisions! Combine? Subtract
It is common to have more than one way to calculate the final area. In the examples below the shape can be seen as two rectangles combined or as one large rectangle with a smaller rectangle 'cut out' from the top right corner.
Calculating Area Worksheets
Print out the worksheets listed below and use them for practice when tutoring your children.
Calculating Compound Areas e.g. with rectangular shapes
Calculating Compound Areas e.g. with rectangles, triangles, and circles
Calculating Areas e.g. of Triangles
Calculating Surface Areas e.g. of Rectangular Prisms
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Print out the pages below - ideally onto thicker paper or onto card - and cut out the shapes. Use these to form 3-dimensional shapes by folding along the lines. There are different nets:
Note: Use this printable graph paper generator to create grids that can help students draw their own nets.
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Related Resources
The various resources listed below are aligned to the same standard, (6G04) taken from the CCSM (Common Core Standards For Mathematics) as the Geometry Worksheet shown above.
Represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles, and use the nets to find the surface area of these figures. Moneywiz 2 3 3. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
Example/Guidance
Area
Worksheet
Match & draw shapes & nets (2-page worksheet)
Net of not a net? (identifying nets)
Shapes and Figures
3-D Objects (2 of 2) Identifying prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, etc.
Similar to the above listing, the resources below are aligned to related standards in the Common Core For Mathematics that together support the following learning outcome:
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume
Calculating Areas e.g. of Triangles (From Worksheet)
Volumes of Rectangular Prisms (From Worksheet)
Volumes of Rectangular Prisms (From Worksheet)
Plotting Polygons & Finding Lengths :3-page with triangles and quadrilaterals (From Worksheet)