A short scaffolded worksheet designed to support students breaking down a compound shape into different simpler shapes. Ideally comes after lots of practice on area of circles and semi-circles. ideal task to use between examples and lots of practice to ease the transition to question with no scaffolding.

A scaffolded worksheet that guides students through working out the area of a shaded shapes when a circle is removed from a bigger circle. First task demonstrates the separate parts to first work out the ares, then combine them. Second task promotes the students identifying the parts them selves and then calculating the area.