Exploring rectangles

Maths

Area of 2-D shapes

Fill in the gap: To work out the area of a __________ we need to know how many square units lie within its boundary.

Fill in the gap: Instead of counting square units within the rectangle, we can multiply the ________ and width to work out the rectangle’s area.

Fill in the gap: When we __________ two or more shapes we form a new shape.

Fill in the gap: The area of the new shape will be the ________ of the areas of the original shapes.

Fill in the gap: The perimeter of the new shape will be ________ than the sum of the perimeters of the original shapes, and varies depending on how we combine them.

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Exploring rectangles

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.