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.

Exploring rectangles

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