Calculate the area of the figure and show your solving steps.

Area is a measure of how much space there is inside a shape.  Calculating the area of a shape or surface can be useful in everyday life – for example you may need to know how much paint to buy to cover a wall or how much grass seed you need to sow a lawn.

This page covers the essentials you need to know in order to understand and calculate the areas of common shapes including squares and rectangles, triangles and circles.

Calculating Area Using the Grid Method

When a shape is drawn on a scaled grid you can find the area by counting the number of grid squares inside the shape.In order to find an area value using the grid method, we need to know the size that a grid square represents.Count the grid squares inside the large square to find its area..

There are 16 small squares so the area of the large square is 16 square centimetres.

In mathematics we abbreviate 'square centimetres' to cm2.  The 2 means ‘squared’.

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