Surface inside figure is called area.
Another way of defining can be
the amount of paint used to cover the shape
Example
The blue portion is the area
What is Area?
Last updated at Dec. 7, 2018 by Teachoo
Chapter 10 Class 6 Mensuration
Concept wise
- Perimeter
- Perimeter of Rectangle
- Perimeter of Square
- Perimeter of Triangle
- Perimeter of Pentagon and Hexagon
- Area - Definition
- Finding area by counting squares
- Area of Square
- Area of Rectangle
- Area by splitting into rectangles
- Finding Area by Changing units
- Area questions with both rectangles and squares
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