A square centimeter is the area of a square that is 1 centimeter long on each side. This is 1 square centimeter.

  1. Find the area in square centimeters of these two shapes.
  1. This shape has curved sides. Professor Peabody estimated its area. He counted whole square centimeters and matched smaller pieces with one another to estimate whole squares.
    1. How many whole squares did he count?
    2. Find the two pieces he “put together” to make square number 15. Do you agree they make about a whole square centimeter?
    3. What is Professor Peabody's estimate for the area?

Use the Check Each Other page in the Student Activity Book to practice finding the area of shapes with curved sides.