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Calculate Area and Volume

In this worksheet, students will be asked to find the volume of cubes and cuboids and the area of rectangles and parallelograms, from the information given.

'Calculate Area and Volume' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 6 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Measurement

Curriculum subtopic:   Use Area/Volume Formulae

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

In this activity, we will be challenged to work out the volume and area of different shapes.

 

Volume

Remember that volume is measured in cubic units, e.g. 1 cm³ or 1 m³

We need to know the following formulae to work out the volumes of these 3D solid shapes.

 

Cube

 

Blue Cube

 

We need to know the side length.

Remember, the length, the width and the height will all be equal to the side length because this is a cube.

Volume of cube = side length x side length x side length

 

Cuboid

 

Blue Cuboid

 

We need to  know the length, the width and the height

Volume of cuboid = length x width x height 

 

Area

Remember that area is measured in square units for example, m² or cm²

 

Rectangles

Area of a rectangle

 

We need to know the base length and the perpendicular height from the base to the top.

Area of rectangle = base x height

 

Parallelogram

Blue Parallelogram

 

We need to know the base length and the perpendicular height from base to top (not the slant height)

Area of parallelogram = base x height

 

Triangle

Blue Triangle

 

We need to know the base length and the perpendicular height from the base to the apex (not the slant height)

Area of triangle = 1/2 base x height

Or

Area of triangle = base x height ÷ 2

 

That's a lot to remember! You can look back at this page at any point by clicking on the red help button on the screen.

 

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