Measure the area of flat shapes using square metres | Maths

Starter quiz

Which of these items is approximately a metre in length?

A laptop screen

The height of a house

The length of a school hall

The width of a door ✓
Match the item with the square unit that would be the most useful for finding its area.

square cm

⇔

a page in a book ✓

square m

⇔

a back garden ✓

square mm

⇔

a blade of grass ✓

square km

⇔

a village ✓
Which of these is another way of writing 'square metres'?

2m

m2

m² ✓
Which of these sets of fractions total one whole?

one half + one half ✓

one quarter + one quarter

one third + one third + one third ✓

one quarter + one quarter + one quarter + one quarter ✓
What is the area of this shape? ______ cm²

'15' ✓
What is the area of this shape? ______ cm²

'18' ✓

Which of these surfaces would you measure using square metres?

The area of a town

The area of the classroom floor ✓

The area of a reading book

The area of the school playground ✓

The area of a PE mat ✓
How many different ways can this value be expressed?

Four square metres ✓

Four squares

Four metres squared ✓

4m² ✓

4 squared
Which value shows the best estimate of the whole area?

12 m²

13 m² ✓

14 m²
True or false? This shape has an area of two square metres.

True. There are 2 squares that each have the area of one square metre.

False. The shapes meet at the vertices so they are two shapes. ✓
Match the shape to the total area.

a

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3 m² ✓

b

⇔

4 m² ✓

c

⇔

2 m² ✓

d

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5 m² ✓
Which of the shapes have an area of 5 square metres?

a

b ✓

c

d ✓

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Pupils may believe that an area of one square metre has to be in the shape of a square.

Take two large pieces of paper, each one square metre, and fold them in half in different ways. Bring them together to form a square metre.

Square metre - A square metre is a unit of measure equal to a square that is one metre on each side.