Plane figures 1

BASIC SCIENCE JSS2 Second term

Sub-Theme: Drawing practice

WEEK 1

Plane figures 1

Performance objectives

Students should be able to:

  1. Identify regular plane figures.
  2. Construct regular plane figures of equal areas.

Content

Plane figures

The idea of an area may be explained as the amount of space enclosed within the boundary of a figure. For instance, the area of the floor of a classroom is the amount of space enclosed within the four corners of the room. Also, the area of the top of the teacher's table is the amount of space enclosed within the edges of the table. 

To measure the amount of space, we determine the number of square units. As an example, let us find the area of the rectangular floor of length 10cm and width 6cm. To do this, one method may be to take.... View More

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