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Border areas - calculating compound areas

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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Border areas - calculating compound areas
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Geometry and measures: Area and perimeter
Inside
Includes answers
Resource type
Worksheet

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A KS3-4 worksheet resource to practise calculating border areas. For example, given a square inside a square, calculate the area between. Prior knowledge of finding areas of rectangles and triangles is assumed. 

This activity has 9 questions ranging in difficulty with some involving finding the area of a triangle. This is a non-calculator exercise which can also give numeracy practice. 

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11/05/2019

in a class

Tapiwa Museva

17/11/2017