Area - Comparing Area - Worksheet

The "Comparing Area" worksheet is an educational resource designed to help Year 6 students understand and apply the concept of area to rectilinear shapes. The National Curriculum objective for this lesson is to find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares. Students are provided with differentiated sheets and teaching slides to aid their learning. The key vocabulary for this lesson includes terms such as "area," "compare," "larger," "smaller," "rectilinear shapes," and "squares." The activities encourage children to compare the areas of different shapes using the same size square, utilize symbols like < and > to denote which shape has a greater or lesser area, and order shapes based on their area from largest to smallest or vice versa.

During the lesson, students will answer area-related questions and complete sentence stems comparing the areas of shapes. They are tasked with putting shapes in order by area and identifying patterns in how the area changes across a series of shapes. The worksheets prompt students to draw the next shape in a pattern and calculate its area, fostering reasoning and problem-solving skills. The exercises also include challenges such as spotting the odd one out among a group of shapes made from equal squares, making rectangles from shapes by adding squares, and predicting the area of future shapes in a pattern. This structured approach to learning area comparison aims to deepen students' understanding of geometric concepts and their practical application.