What fraction of the square is the pink triangle?
Using your knowledge of Areas, work out what fraction the pink triangle is of the square (answer soon in post support):
Using your knowledge of Areas, work out what fraction the pink triangle is of the square (answer soon in post support):
‘Sadie’ is such a lovely dog – playful, cuddly and, well, just cute! But, your parents are going out to buy 24 meters of fencing to make a pen for dear Sadie. What will you do while they are out shopping? Why, play with Sadie of course? No, no, no – you have to put […]
A great little game for 2 or 3 players and easy to organise in the classroom! Each player chooses a colour pencil or pen/highlighter they will use in the game. Players take turns rolling the dice, using the numbers that they rolled to draw the perimeter of a rectangle or square & writing the area […]
As we saw in the last posting, the area of a circle is given by; So, to find the area of a circle we multiply pi (3.1415…) x the radius squared. Our answer will be something squared. Another way to think of area is how many square tiles would fit the shape, etc. In the […]
Here are the most common areas which students are required to calculate. Note that areas are ALWAYS expressed as something squared (such as squared metres):
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